The effect of transformational leadership on individual improvisation moderated through autonomy, empowerment and proactiveness

• Autor(a) principal: Ciocianu, Damian Ion
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19876
• topic: Individual improvisation; Transformational leadership; Autonomy; Empowerment; Proactiveness; Improvisação individual; Liderança transformacional; Autonomia; Empoderamento; Proatividade; Gestão de recursos humanos; Liderança; Criatividade -- Creativity

This study was conducted to gain more comprehensive insights on improvisation on an individual level. Hence, the main topic of this work focuses on whether transformational leadership have an effect on individual improvisation , and what are the mechanisms by which this effect works. The literature indicated a void in knowledge around the mediating variables autonomy , empowerment and proactiveness in this context. The data that were used for this study was collected by conducting a survey amongst 92 participants from different nationalities, age and occupations. The findings underscore that individual improvisation is driven by the activation of individual attitudes that can be induced by the behavior of a leader. Furthermore, both autonomy and proactiveness mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and individual improvisation . However, a leader that promotes empowerment in individuals, will not increase individual improvisation behaviors.