Title :
An examination of the relationships between leadership style, quality, and employee satisfaction in R&D environments
Author :
Berson, Yair ; Linton, Jonathan
Author_Institution :
Polytech. Univ., USA
Abstract :
The relationship between leadership style of all managers and the establishment of a quality environment in an R&D setting is considered in this empirical study of 511 engineers. It is found that both transformational leadership and transactional contingent-reward leadership are related to the establishment of a quality environment in the R&D part of a telecommunications firm. However, the impact of transactional contingent-reward leadership ceases to be significant once both leadership styles are considered simultaneously using structural equations. A transformational leadership style is also found to be related to employee satisfaction.
Keywords :
human resource management; personnel; research and development management; employee; managers leadership style; quality environment; research and development environment; structural equations; telecommunications firm; transactional contingent reward leadership; transformational leadership; Costs; Engineering management; Environmental management; Equations; Quality management; Research and development; Research and development management; Technological innovation; Technology management; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering Management Conference, 2003. IEMC '03. Managing Technologically Driven Organizations: The Human Side of Innovation and Change
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8150-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMC.2003.1252304
