Dalen, Jan-Willem van (2023) Dynamics of Leader-Employee Dyads in Dutch Organizations: Exploring the Impact of Shared Leadership on Employee Creativity. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Studying creativity from a formal leadership perspective is a flawed starting point, as creativity requires self-direction (Chen et al., 2020). The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between shared leadership and employee creativity. To investigate this relationship, a multi-sourced cross-sectional field study was conducted within a dyadic context, involving 27 Dutch leader-employee dyads selected through convenience sampling. The Social Information Processing Theory has been used as a theoretical framework for the hypothesis that empowering leadership serves as a partial mediator on the relationship between shared leadership and employee creativity. All in all, no significant effects have been observed in our findings for any of our hypotheses. Nevertheless, this study contributes to the field by examining dyads within Dutch organizations and exploring different informal leadership styles and their relationship to employee creativity in real-life organizational settings. At the end of this study, diverse recommendations on future research are made.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Bucur, R.E. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2023 08:52 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2023 08:52 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2846 |
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