![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Next to that, our findings shows that a good relationship between the leader and the employee is crucial and essential to foster this kind of behaviour and is next to granting freedom to the employee, the main factor in stimulating employee innovativeness'. These types of behaviour match with the transformational and participative leadership style. The relation-oriented behaviour like providing coaching and advice, opportunities for skill development, allowing substantial responsibility and discretion in work activities and showing empathy are found to be most important to stimulate the innovative behaviour of employees. This study explains this relationship and identifies which leadership behaviour seems to be most appropriate to stimulate the innovative behaviour of the employee. An extensive literature research indicated that there is a relationship between showing and applying leadership behaviour and the innovativeness' of employees. Leaders play an important role in stimulating the innovative work behaviour of employees, because they motivate and inspire employees to do so. ![]() In the past, R&D departments paid attention to innovative ideas, but research reveals that the most innovative ideas do not come from R&D departments only employees are seen as the most important source, which can actually foster innovation within organizations. In the rapidly changing environment that organizations face nowadays, it is necessary to stimulate innovation in order to survive. ![]()
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