| dc.description.abstract | The present study presents a qualitative study of the leadership that is essential for
driving innovation in organisations. Based on a grounded-theoretic investigation of
interviews conducted with scientists working in 11 Indian R&D organisations, the study
explores the leader behaviours that affect innovation processes at workplace. The results
demonstrate that the critical leader behaviours that impact innovation are task-oriented
behaviour, relation-oriented behaviour, team-building behaviour, empowering behaviour
and leading by example behaviour. The study identi es three process variables through
which innovation is brought about in organisations. These are organisations’ psychological
capital, fairness at workplace and employees’ work engagement. Impact of leadership on
these process factors is discussed. | en_US |
