... of the leadership literature found that women enact a democratic or participative leadership style more often than men, and found directive or autocratic behaviour to be related to masculinity (Eagly and Johnson, 1990). Such studies give support to the proposition that leadership, in general, is an inherently...

...Yi-Ying Chang; Feng-Yi Chiang; Qilin Hu; Ian Hodgkinson; Paul Hughes; Che-Yuan Chang Purpose Participative leadership's influence on employee task performance has garnered significant attention in a rapidly evolving organizational landscape. This study explores the multilevel dynamics...

...Nilesh Kumar; Changfeng Wang; Zhiqiang Liu Purpose Based on theory Z of leadership, this research aims to investigate the direct relationship between participative leadership (PL) and creative idea validation (CIV) fostering both radical (RC) and incremental creativity (IC). Additionally...

...Lu Chen; Kwame Ansong Wadei; Shuaijiao Bai; Jun Liu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw upon social information processing theory to examine the sequential mediating roles of psychological safety and creative process engagement between participative leadership on creativity. Design...

...Yi-Ying Chang; Ian Hodgkinson; Paul Hughes; Che-Yuan Chang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of intermediate knowledge mechanisms on the participative leadership–employee exploratory innovation relationship using a distal mediation model. Design/methodology/approach...

...Simon C.H. Chan Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine the relationships between participative leadership and employees’ work engagement and job satisfaction; and second, to determine whether the level of fun experienced at work moderates the effect of participative...