Leadership Styles and Their Influence on Team Collaboration and Innovation in Creative Industries
Keywords:
Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership, Transactional LeadershipAbstract
Purpose: The research presented in this paper focuses on how specific leadership behaviors affect shared leadership processes and creativity in organizations within the creative sector. Particularly, it compares the impact of transformational, transactional, and the latter, the ‘laissez-faire’ leadership on stimulating collaboration and enhancing innovation at the team level.
Subjects and Methods: An initial quantitative research design was used in this study whereby questionnaires were used to collect information from a total of 150 respondents who were employees in the creative industries.
Results: This study also revealed satisfactory levels of association between team collaboration and innovation recommendations to show that collaboration was critical in creating a culture of innovation. To some extent, these studies add to the extant knowledge by seeking to establish how personal leadership behaviours impact creativity in workplaces, especially where innovation is core business.
Conclusions: The study establishes transformational leadership as being effective in fostering collaboration and innovation when implementing change and provide evidence that laissez-faire leadership is not effective in creative endeavours. The findings of this study are beneficial to managers in creative industries, as well as presenting specific suggestions for managerial action that can foster creative organizational culture and effective knowledge sharing.
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