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Connecting Individual Differences in Workforce to Organizational Creativity through Transformational Leadership for Corporate Transformational Effectiveness!
Faculty of Technology, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland
Faculty of Technology, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland
- 1 Faculty of Technology, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland
- 2 Faculty of Technology, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland
Open Journal of Leadership·Volume 02 (2013)·Pages 73–77·Published 23 October 2013·DOI10.4236/ojl.2013.24010
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Abstract
The study offers grounds to measure level of “creativity” through directional “leadership management options” (i.e. transactional leadership, laissez-faire leadership) in teams marked by individual differences or diversity. The study results confirmed that transformational leadership provides support to generate creativity by even the ordinary performers marked by the workforce diversity phenomenon among the organizational workers.
KeywordsCreativityTransactional LeadershipLaissez-Faire LeadershipIndividual DifferencesTransformational LeadershipWorkforce Diversity
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