Evers, Britt (2024) Catalysts or Constraints? A Contingency-Approach on Leadership Styles and Team Creativity and Innovation. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Research exploring the relationship between leadership and team creativity and innovation is abundant, yet scattered with inconsistent findings. This limits our understanding of how different leadership styles, specifically transformational, transactional and destructive leadership, relate to team creativity and innovation and which contextual factors may influence these relationships. To address this, we conducted a semi-systematic literature review aimed at synthesizing existing research and identifying key contextual factors influencing these relationships. We began by offering an overview of the current state of the literature, outlining arguments and research findings on how the different leadership styles relate to team creativity and innovation. Subsequently, we introduced a theoretical research model and formulated research questions to guide our review process. Our literature search identified 41 relevant articles, which we systematically categorized based on leadership style (i.e., transformational, transactional and destructive), dependent variable (i.e., team creativity and innovation), and research focus (i.e., main effect and interaction effect). For articles examining interaction effects, we further clustered them based on the type of effect they had (i.e., strengthening, weakening and reversing) and moderator type, following the framework proposed by Johns (2006). Our analysis yielded a cohesive framework, largely consistent with previous findings and expectations. We discuss the implications of our findings, address study limitations, and propose recommendations for future research to further elucidate the complex dynamics between leadership styles and team performance.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Rus, D.C. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2024 08:25 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2024 08:25 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3841 |
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