Team innovation is an important factor for organizational effectiveness. However, fostering innovation in teams remains a major challenge for team leaders. In particular, we still have an incomplete understanding of (1) the effects of team‐centric leadership and (2) the role of teamwork for the relationship between leadership and innovation and learning. Integrating team‐centric transformational leadership and the teamwork quality (TWQ) model with frameworks for team innovation, the current study addresses this issue. Specifically, we investigated TWQ as a team‐level mediator of the relationship between team‐centric transformational leadership, team innovation, and individual members’ learning. We tested our hypotheses using lagged, multi‐source data from a sample of 79 scientific teams. Our findings show that team‐centric transformational leadership is positively related to both team innovation and individual members' learning. Furthermore, the positive relationship between team‐centric transformational leadership and learning is mediated by specific aspects of TWQ. Our study helps to clarify the processes underlying the effects of team‐centric leadership on innovation and learning.

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通过以团队为中心的变革型领导来促进团队创新和学习：团队质量的作用

团队创新是组织有效性的重要因素。但是，促进团队创新仍然是团队领导者面临的主要挑战。特别是，我们对（1）以团队为中心的领导力的影响和（2）团队合作在领导力与创新与学习之间的关系中的作用尚不完全了解。将以团队为中心的变革型领导力和团队合作质量（TWQ）模型与团队创新框架相结合，当前的研究解决了这一问题。具体来说，我们调查了TWQ作为团队级中介者，以团队为中心的变革型领导，团队创新和个人成员的学习之间的关系。我们使用来自79个科研团队的样本的多源滞后数据检验了我们的假设。我们的研究结果表明，以团队为中心的变革型领导与团队创新和个人成员的学习都呈正相关。此外，以团队为中心的变革型领导与学习之间的积极关系由TWQ的特定方面介导。我们的研究有助于弄清以团队为中心的领导力对创新和学习产生影响的过程。