Group-Focused and Differentiated Individual-Focused Empowering Leadership in R&D teams
Journal
Academy of Management conference
Date Issued
2013-08
Author(s)
Abstract
Recent research suggests that there are two distinct behavioral 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 behavior across different group members. This research examines the unique influences of group-focused empowering leadership and differentiated individual-focused empowering leadership on R&D team’s processes and team effectiveness. Using data from 54 R&D 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.
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Type
conference paper