USING REPERTORY GRID AND PERCEPTUAL MAPS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ON CREATIVE LEADERSHIP Fernando Sousa  Ileana Monteiro

3. Easier to
change
Peripheral
Constructs
Central or
Superordinated
Constructs
Peripheral
Constructs

4. Challenges coworkers doesn't care
Challenges coworkers doesn’t set
challenging goals
Reflect the individual’s cognitive structure
and complexity

5. Individuals: a leader, teacher, father ...
Actions: innovate, motivate
Objects: a job, well-being
Qualities: creativity, loyalty

6. 1. Elicit elements and constructs
2. Build a table with elements and
constructs (a questionnaire, for
example)
3. Explore data clarifying the structure
within the constructs and relations
between the elements

7. Maria
Líder Líder Não
Raul Ideal
Inovador Inovador Leader
William
Líder Non
Inovador Inovative Myself
leader
Innovative Non
Leader Inovative LPC
leader

8. 1 - I totally agree with A sentence
2 - I partially agree with A sentence
3 - I neither agree or disagree with A, neither with B, or it’s not relevant
4 - I partially agree with B sentence
5 - I totally agree with B sentence
Non
My Innovative
A Sentence Innovative B Sentence
Manager Manager
Manager
1-He(she) appreciates 1. He (she) doesn’t
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
originality. appreciate originality.
2-He (she) tries new ways of 2. The rules are defined,
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
doing the work. they must be followed.
3. He (she) attributes the
3-The results must always be
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 good results to his own
allocated to the team.
merit.
4-He (she) commits the all 3. He (she) doesn’t
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
team with the objectives. communicate the goals.
3. He (she) doesn’t know
5-He (she) knows to praise
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 how to praise, just to
who deserves it.
punish.

15. Decision Making Skills Relational Skills (α=.895)
(α=.895)
 He (she) shares his (her)
He (she) understands knowledge.
quickly the new situations.  He (she) commits the all team
He (she) is dynamic in his with the objectives.
(her) work.
 He (she) shares the
He (she) is entrepreneur
and dynamic. information, because it
enriches the team.
He (she) is self confident in
any circumstances.  The results must always be
He (she) is not afraid of allocated to the team.
failure.  He (she) explains clearly what
He (she) is able to balance he (she) wants from each one
technical and human issues of his (her) coworker.
He(she) appreciates  He (she) knows to praise who
originality. deserves it.
He (she) is firm and secure
in his (her) decisions.  In front of him (her) people
 He (she) tries new ways of don’t feel inhibit to ask a
doing the work. difficult question.

16. CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS
2 DIMENTIONS:
• DECISION MAKING SKILLS
• RELATIONAL SKILLS
Indicators Innovative Leader My Manager
2/gl 2.02 1.47
GFI .97 .97
AGFI .94 .93
Pop.Gamma Index .97 .96
REMSEA .06 .06

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19. Category Unity of Context Frequency
Good_relationship We are very close to the employees 14
and communication We listen a lot.
they have a good relationship with the
management, so we are very visible, very
visible
Improve continuously / if you treat people with respect and you listen 6
innovation to people and you gather all the information
and based on that you take your decisions
and you make your changes in your company
then innovation is pretty easy
Client_suggestion Everyday we have customers come, 6
customers tell us what goes well and what
goes wrong
Everything is based on customer data
all of the improvement from our clients
what the clients are telling us about our job,
the source of innovation sits with the clients

21. INNOVATIVE
NON INNOVATIVE

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