...Secil Bayraktar; Alfredo Jiménez Purpose While many studies confirm the benefits of high-quality leader-member exchange (LMX), the majority of previous research assumes that “more is better” (i.e. positive leader behaviors), failing to consider more complicated patterns in which the beneficial...

...Ashkan Khalili Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine empirically the influence of leader-member exchange (LMX) on employees’ creativity and innovation. In addition, this study investigated the moderating role of employees’ personal initiative on the associations. Design/methodology...

... is that these functions are, on average, performed poorly by public sector supervisors (Brunetto et al., 2012 ; Diefenback, 2009), perhaps because they lack the necessary skills and training to provide effective management. Poor quality LMX relationships seem likely to constrain the proactive behaviour...