Abstract: As the development of society and economy, the management theories are developing into the fifth stage, which is called Innovative/Creative Management, and creative leadership is one of its representatives, which is defined as the procedure that the leaders, who construct an organizational climate supporting employees to create, use the creative skills and strategies to stimulate employees to solve problems initiatively and creatively, and achieve the organizational goal finally .The technological change, and competition emphasize the need for creativity, in the organization, which make the scholars pay more attention to the creative leadership, and so many behaviors and cognitions of creative leaders are researched. While seldom papers review these researches, especially, in the perspective of the cognitive mechanism under this leadership style. In this paper, the author try to make up this gap. After exploring the relationships between creativity and leadership, which provided the theoretical and practical bases for creative leadership, this paper analysed the influences and effects of creative leadership in the level of the organization, which included the construct, climate, cultrue, size of the organizations, and also the level of employees, which especially focused on the strategies arousing the employees' creativity . On the bases of summarizing the prior fingding, five strategies were displayed which were appealled the most frequently, while still needed more evidences to approve their functions. Then the author elaborated the antecedents and processes of leaders' and employees' creative thinking and behaviors. In this part, there was one cognitive mechanism model for leaders and employees respectively. Obviously, each model was constructed in the view of the employees, which was the fundamental bias that overlooked the leaders' initiative. More convincing models still need more toil to be constructed. Finally, the future research tendencies, including the needing of new development of the creative leading skills and strategies, research paradigms referencing the neuroscience and multi-dimensional integration of the creative leadership, were discussed as well.

Key words: Creative Leadership, Creative thinking, Innovation, Cognition, Neuroscience

摘要： 管理理论的研究已迈进创新/创造管理阶段，其典型代表为创造型领导力的理论研究。文章在探讨了创造与领导力关系的基础上，分析了创造型领导的影响效能，阐述了领导者创造思维的前因、领导者与员工创造思维过程研究。最后从创造型领导的技能与策略的发展、认知神经科学范式的采纳、多维整合等角度，评述未来研究趋势。

关键词: 创造型领导, 创造型思维, 创新, 认知, 神经科学