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When empowering leadership fosters creative performance: The role of problem-solving demands and creative personality

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  • Audenaert, Mieke
  • Decramer, Adelien

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the circumstances under which empowering leadership fosters creative performance. Arguments were developed for a three-way interaction of empowering leadership, problem-solving demands and creative personality in this linkage. These arguments resulted in competing hypotheses from a fit and a compensation perspective. The results from a survey of 213 employees of a Flemish large industrial organization were used. We found that less creative employees in jobs with high problem-solving demands particularly benefit from empowering leadership. This paper adds to a more complex understanding of the effectiveness of empowering leadership by highlighting the relevance of the simultaneous interplay of contextual and personal factors.

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  • Audenaert, Mieke & Decramer, Adelien, 2018. "When empowering leadership fosters creative performance: The role of problem-solving demands and creative personality," Journal of Management & Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 24(1), pages 4-18, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jomorg:v:24:y:2018:i:01:p:4-18_00
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