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The purpose of the study was to empirically investigate the impacts of formal mentoring on individual creativity and the mediating role of psychological safety in the relationship between formal mentoring and individual creativity in Chinese employees. Moreover, this study demonstrates the moderating role of affective commitment not only between formal mentoring and psychological safety but also between psychological safety and individual creativity. The results are as following: first, formal mentoring was found to have a significant relationship with individual creativity; second, there is a positive relationship between formal mentoring and psychological safety. Third, as predicted, psychological safety was positively related to individual creativity, Fourth, the mediating role of psychological safety was identified in the relationship between formal mentoring and individual creativity. Fifth, the moderating role of affective commitment between formal mentoring and psychological safety and between psychological safety and individual creativity are both significant. Finally some practical recommendations to develop the formal mentoring for Chinese managers were suggested.