Transformational Leadership and Team Innovation: Integrating Team Climate Principles

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Eisenbeiss, Silke A.; van Knippenberg, Daan; Boerner, Sabine
• 署名单位: University of Konstanz; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0012716
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1438-1446
• 关键词: team innovation; transformational leadership; team climate

摘要

Fostering team innovation is increasingly an important leadership function. However. the empirical evidence for the role of transformational leadership in engendering team innovation is scarce and mixed. To address this issue, the authors link transformational leadership theory to principles of M. A. West's (1990) team Climate theory and propose an integrated model for the relationship between transformational leadership and team innovation. This model involves support for innovation as a mediating process and climate for excellence as a moderator. Results from a study of 33 research and development teams confirmed that transformational leadership works through support for innovation, which in turn interacts with climate for excellence such that support for innovation enhances team innovation only when climate for excellence is high.