The Effect of Feedback Sources Learning-Goal Orientation on Employee Creativity

We attempt to provide a comprehensive explanation of how feedback sources (i.e., leaders) encourage employee feedback acceptance through a mediating and a moderating mechanism. In particular, we argue that feedback quality is a significant mediator in the relationship between the learning-goal orientation of feedback sources and their credibility, suggesting the credibility of feedback sources could be enhanced through the provision of high-quality feedback by learning- oriented leaders. We also introduce a learning organization culture as a promising moderating variable in the relationship between feedback acceptance and creativity. A total of 190 subordinates and 53 leaders were included in the final analysis. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), we found that feedback sources learning-goal orientation was positively related to their credibility through providing high-quality feedback. In addition, the credibility of feedback sources was found to play an important role in increasing feedback accept...