Leadership Style, Organizational Culture & Climate for Innovation in Healthcare Sector
Research Supervisor: Ms. Sadaf Ch.
Submitted by: Mr. Shahzad Ahmad
ID: MB130400058
Field of Study: MSBA-Management Sciences
Virtual University of Pakistan
Date of Submission: October 2015
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION 2
2. RATIONALE 3
3. LITERATURE REVIEW 4
3.1 Leadership 4
3.1.1 Participative leadership 7
3.1.2 Supportive leadership 7
3.1.3 Result oriented leadership 7
3.1.4 Directive leadership 7
3.2 Organizational Culture 7
3.2.1 Hierarchy culture 9
3.2.2 Clan culture 9
3.2.3 Adhocracy culture 9
3.2.4 Market culture 10
3.3 Innovation 10
3.3.1 Climate for Innovation 12
3.3.2 Support for innovation 12
3.3.3 Resources for innovation 13
3.4 Leadership
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He further illustrates that transformational leadership instills trust, admiration, loyalty, and respect in members for their leader, thus they are motivated to do more than they originally expected to do. Similarly, according to Bass (1991), the leader transforms and motivates followers by making them more aware of the importance of results, encouraging them to rise above their own self-interest for the good of the organization, while stimulating their higher-order …show more content…
Therefore, it may be concluded that organizational culture is one of the factors that can inspire organizational members to adopt innovative behavior (Naranjo-Valencia et al. 2011). Furthermore, it can be argued that organizations need to get competitive advantage if they are to avoid obsolescence and organizational culture is believed to be as a source of sustained competitive advantage to businesses (Miron, Erez, and Naheh, 2004). As far as the suitability of a particular type of culture in regard to innovative orientation is concerned Naranjo et al (2011) found that adhocracy culture is suitable for innovative