Boosting Creativity with Transformational Leadership in Fuzzy Front-end Innovation Processes
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: One of the contemporary demands in organizations is the need to create new knowledge and innovations.The purpose of this study is to clarify how creativity for the fuzzy front-end innovation processes can be supported by transformational leadership.In addition, the study aims at recognizing (a) challenges that organizations confront at the beginning of innovation processes and (b) what characters of transformational leadership are emphasized as well as how leaders should react during these challenging processes.The qualitative data used in this study is a partial case study from a wider action research-based development project, which aims at revealing the hidden innovation potential at different levels of an organization.Creativity and innovation are essential parts of development processes.This study contributes to the current literature on search strategies in relation to transformational leadership (TL) by extending the understanding of how to support employees' creativity and involve employees in discovering new innovation opportunities.In addition, this study suggests that TL's characteristics can be shared positively in practice as well as be performed simultaneously in the same organization development process by different leaders.
DOI: 10.28945/1786
Authors: Mirva Hyypiä, Satu Parjanen
Institution: Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W320799172