How transactional and transformational leadership styles impact employee innovative behavior

Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Management Styles, grade: 1,3, University of applied Sciences Regensburg (Betriebswirtschaft), course: International Business Administration, language: English, abstract: Employee innovative behavior (EIB) must be fostered and directed by managerial behavior. Although the literature provides many leadership styles that can be applied to an organization, leadership is generally defined as the "process of influencing someone or a group of individuals to achieve a particular goal¿ (Alblooshi, 2020) which may spawn innovation. Two of the most discussed leadership styles in the past five years are the transactional and the transformational leadership style. (Kleefstra, 2019) Thus, this term paper will compare the found effects of transformational and transactional leadership styles on EIB.