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Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2015, 5, 334-347 Published Online June 2015 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2015.56045 The Relationship between Self-Concordance and Employee Creativity Qiaoling Yu Soochow University, Suzhou Jiangsu Email: 849765797@ th th th Received: May 15 , 2015; accepted: Jun. 4 , 2015; published: Jun. 9 , 2015 Copyright © 2015 by author and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract On the basis of the self-determination theory, this study examined the relationship between the self-concordance and employee creativity. The participants involved 449 employees in 83 teams from different companies in China and the theoretical hypotheses were tested by hierarchical li- near modeling. The results showed that 1) self-concordance had positive effects on employee crea- tivity; 2) creative self-efficacy had a mediate effect between self-concordance and employee crea- tivity; 3) affected-based trust in leader had a positive significant moderation effect between self- concordance and employee creativity. Also, affected-based trust in leader had a positive modera- tion role between self-concordance and creative self-efficacy. The research on the relationship be- tween self-concordance and employee creativity can provide theoretical guidance to identify the individual factors that affect employee creativity. Finally, in the future study, we can explore self- concordance as a team variable affects team creativity. Other team variables (e.g., team security c