The Impact of Supervisory Styles on Postgraduates'Innovation Ability——A Meta-Analytic Examination
In recent years,the impact of supervisory styles on postgraduates'innovation ability has received widespread academic attention,and the assessments are quite controversial.In response to the existing controversies,this paper conducts a systematic review of the relationship between supervisory styles and postgraduates'innovation ability through a meta-analytic examination based on 48,913 independent postgraduates.The results indicate that supervisory styles in a whole has a strong correlation with postgraduates'innovation ability,but there are significant differences among the impact of different supervisory styles on postgraduates'innovation ability.The impact of supportive supervisory style on postgraduates'innovation ability is strongest,while the impact of paternalistic supervisory style on postgraduates'innovation ability is weakest.What's more,the impact of supervisory styles on postgraduates'innovation ability varies between individuals,groups and organizations.At the individual level of supervisors,the supervisory styles of supervisors with professional titles below senior level has a stronger impact on postgraduates'innovation ability.At the individual level of postgraduates,the impact of supervisory styles on the innovation ability of postgraduates who are males or under 25 years old or majoring in humanities and social sciences or studying for a master degree is stronger.At the group level,as the size of the postgraduates'team expands,the impact of supervisory styles on improving the postgraduates'innovation ability becomes more and more prominent.At the organizational level,the impact of supervisory styles on the innovation ability of postgraduates in ordinary universities is stronger.These findings can provide important practical implications for the educational management practice to improve postgraduates'innovation ability from the perspective of supervisory styles.
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