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A Help Or Hindrance? Team Leader Behaviors And The Team Climate Of Innovation, Matthew Brady Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

While the nature of teamwork in organizations is ever-evolving, the utilization of teams in some form has continued to increase over the past several decades. While creativity is generally regarded as an individual-level phenomenon, innovation tends to occur as an emergent process at the team level, so rather than only hiring and rewarding star performers, organizations should cultivate and protect the team’s climate for innovation. A particularly impactful contextual factor in team climate is the team leader’s behavior. Therefore, the team leader’s contribution to the climate should work to promote innovation rather than discourage it. A cross-sectional, correlational study surveyed …