Author:
Houn-Gee Chen
Affiliation:
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Keyword(s):
Empowering Leadership, RandD Teams, Group-Focused Leadership, Individual Focused Leadership, Differentiated Leadership.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
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Communication, Collaboration and Information Sharing
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Impact Measurement of Knowledge Management
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Information Systems Analysis and Specification
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Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge Management Projects
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Semiotics
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Recent research suggests that there are two distinct behavioural components of leadership: 1) those targeted at influencing the group as a whole (group-focused); and 2) those aimed at individual group members (individual-focused). Differentiated individual-focused leadership occurs when leader exhibits varying levels of individual-focused leadership behaviour across different group members. This research examines the unique influences of group-focused empowering leadership and differentiated individual-focused empowering leadership on RandD team’s processes and team effectiveness. Using data from 54 RandD teams, we found that group-focused empowering leadership is strongly related to intra-team collaboration, which in turn substantially benefits both team creativity and performance. Differentiated individual-focused empowering leadership, however, leads to intra-team competition, which is harmful to team creativity.