TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND DIMENSIONS OF CREATIVITY - MOTIVATINGIDEA GENERATION IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED GROUPS

Prior research suggests that both transformational leadership and anon ymity may affect creativity in groups using group decision support sys tems to generate ideas. A laboratory study examined effects of high an d low levels of transformational leadership on group creativity under anonymous and identified electronic brainstorming conditions. Four mea sures of group creativity were used: fluency, flexibility, originality , and elaboration (Torrance, 1965). Results indicated that groups work ing under higher levels of transformational leadership generated more idea elaborations and original solutions than groups working under low er levels of transformational leadership. Anonymous groups were more f lexible in generating ideas than identified groups. Results also indic ated a significant Leadership Style x Anonymity interaction for flexib ility.