¶ … Role of Leadership Styles in Organizational Innovation
Andre Alexandre, Jr.
Dr. Amy Burkman
Revised prospectus outline
The Role of Leadership Styles in Organizational Innovation and Success
The study will research the role of leadership styles in organizational innovation and success. A number of studies have shown that transformational leadership positively influences organizational innovation. However, there is a lack of studies examining the contextual conditions under which this effect occurs or enhance organizational success.
Purpose Statement / Problem Statement
The purpose of this study is to explore and provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between leadership styles and organizational innovation.
It is not known to what extent leadership styles impact innovation and enhances organizational success. Therefore, this study will investigate to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between leadership styles and organizational innovation and success.
III. Literature Review
a) Theory: Transformational Leadership Theory. This study aims to investigate the impact of transformational leadership on organizational innovation, and to determine whether transformational leadership has a positive influence on organizational success. Because of the rapid technological changes occurring in what is a dynamic work environment in today's organization transformational leadership in leading change is of high value in the organization. (Gumusluoglu and Ilsev, 2009)
Subtopics
i. Defining Innovation & Organizational Success
Organizational innovation in this study is defined as the tendency of the Organizations to develop new or improve products/services and organizational success. Today, almost all organizations engage in innovative activities as a competitive weapon. Thus, it is important to adopt a market-oriented approach and consider the definition of organizational success as the returns due to innovation. The measure of returns gained from organizational innovation will involve polling the organization and its employees about innovation...
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