Prof. Andreas Richter (University of Cambridge) @TUM

We are very happy to welcome Prof. Andreas Richter (University of Cambridge – Judge Business School), who will talk about: "Leader Temporal Focus And Team Creativity: A Temporal Perspective on Negative Feedback Utilization"
Abstract: How can team leaders help their teams to effectively utilize negative feedback for enhanced creativity? To answer this question, we develop a leader temporality perspective that views negative feedback and team creativity as temporally charged constructs susceptible to team leader temporal traits. Drawing on the concept of temporal focus, we propose that team leaders with high, rather than low, future focus are more likely to respond to negative feedback by encouraging their teams to exert more efforts in improving creativity. By contrast, those leaders with high, compared to low, present focus are more likely to perceive negative feedback as a pessimistic signal that creative outcomes cannot be realized short term, and thus are less likely to encourage team creativity in response to negative feedback. We support these propositions with multi-source, temporally staggered data from a sample of 129 designer teams at an East Asian company. We contribute to the literatures on negative feedback and creativity, subjective time and creativity, as well as team leadership.
We are looking forward to an exciting talk.
Faculty, students, and guests are welcome.

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