A Two-Pronged Approach? Combined Leadership Styles and Innovative Behavior

Franziska Günzel-Jensen; Jesper Rosenberg Hansen; Mads Leth Jakobsen; Jesper Wulff

A Two-Pronged Approach? Combined Leadership Styles and Innovative Behavior

Franziska Günzel-Jensen, Jesper Rosenberg Hansen, Mads Leth Jakobsen, Jesper Wulff

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This article examines the relationship between transformational, transactional, and empowering leadership and the innovative behavior of public sector employees. Instead of investigating their association individually, this article focuses on the interaction between different types of leadership. The analysis is based on a survey from one of Denmark’s largest hospitals (n = 1,647). The main result is that empowering leadership, which focuses on employee capacity, moderates the association between transformational leadership, which is directed at motivation, and innovative behavior. The findings emphasize the importance of not only focusing on a single leadership style but also understanding how they work in combination.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Public Administration
Volume	41
Issue	12
Pages (from-to)	957-970
Number of pages	14
ISSN	0190-0692
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Innovative behavior
empowering leadership
hospitals
transactional leadership
transformational leadership

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A Two-Pronged Approach? Combined Leadership Styles and Innovative Behavior. / Günzel-Jensen, Franziska ; Hansen, Jesper Rosenberg ; Jakobsen, Mads Leth et al.
In: International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 41, No. 12, 2018, p. 957-970.

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