Creative Leadership

5 Leader Behaviors and Employee Creativity

Taking Stock of the Current State of Research

Christina E. Shalley and G. James Lemoine

Introduction

There have been a number of empirical studies focused on leadership behaviors and creativity. In fact, leadership may be the very most examined contextual predictor of creativity in the literature, and fairly consistent findings have emerged across empirical studies. In this chapter, we first review research representative of the major findings concerning how leader behaviors can facilitate employee creativity. This review is not exhaustive, but we believe it is reflective of the research that has been conducted to date on individual level creativity. Recently, Mainemelis, Kark, and Epitropaki (2015) ...