Abstract: The innovation and development of enterprises is inseparable from employee creativity. However, the current environment in which enterprises are located is changing from a single, stable and competitive model to a diversified, complex and cooperation-competition model, and contradictions are becoming increasingly prominent. Paradoxical leadership, as a new leadership behavior with both contradiction and integrated thinking, has positive effects on employee creativity, but its underlying mechanism needs to be further explored. This paper conducts an empirical test of314 survey data collected at different time periods, so as to explore the relationship between paradoxical leadership and employee creativity; and it examines the mediating and moderating effects of job remodeling and adjusting focus from the perspective of employee active behavior and individual traits.The findings show that paradoxical leadership can positively promote employee creativity,and that job remolding plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between paradoxical leadership and employee creativity. Employee adjusting focus can play an adjusting role in the relationship between paradoxical leadership and job remodeling and in the indirect relationship between paradoxical leadership and employee creativity through job remolding,in other words, when employees have higher promotion adjusting focus or lower prevention adjusting focus, theirjob remolding behavior will be more likely promoted by paradoxical leadership, thus their creativity level will also be promoted.

Key words: paradoxical leadership, job remodeling, adjusting focuses, employee creativity