The Influences of Leadership Styles on Employee's Creativity — the Cases of Public Museums in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Pung-Hsiang Hsu, 徐鵬翔
• Other Authors: Shir-Tau Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82245949359204825451

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 國際人力教育與發展研究所 === 97 === Organizational environment would influence employee’s creativity; nevertheless, supervisor’s leadership is the one of the most powerful elements in it. Consequently, supervisor’s leadership style is one of the effective factors in the organizational background that determines employee’s creativity. Employees tend to more easily produce creative ideas when they are encouraged, supported, trusted and authorized by supervisors. There are two main purposes in this study. First, it is to distinguish what types of leadership supervisors in the public museums, including National Science and Technology Museum, National Museum of Natural Science, and National Palace Museum, in Taiwan belong to. Second, it is to study how supervisors in these museums influence employees』 creativity. These three museums not only play important roles of educating people with natural science, technology and abounding Chinese heritage but also push the creative industry forward in Taiwan. It is significant to understand the influence of leadership on this upcoming industry. After the literature review and case study, in-depth interviews were conducted with supervisors and their subordinates in the above-mentioned museums. In the conclusion of this study, supervisors in the public museums in Taiwan have a mutual leadership style – supportive and participative. Although the supervisors with this mutual leadership style do not value employees』 personal creativity development much, they would either inspire or at least not influence subordinates』 creativity, depending on the level of authorization and communication. This type of supervisors would greatly give opportunities for employees to deliver creative ideas by different ways. Nevertheless, whether employees are willing to propose creative ideas or not depends more on their locus of control under this mutual leadership style. And fortunately, the employees would carry out innovative ideas and products in the end under their supervisors』 leading.