The mediating effect of organisational climate on the relationship between leadership practices and innovative work behaviour
The capability to innovate is essential to the survival of most organisations. Several factors that affect innovative work behaviours have been discussed and explored by scholars. It is generally believed that innovative work behaviours are influenced by leadership practices and organisational clima...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6317/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6317/1/bari'ah_dzulkifli_24.pdf |
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| Summary: | The capability to innovate is essential to the survival of most organisations. Several
factors that affect innovative work behaviours have been discussed and explored by
scholars. It is generally believed that innovative work behaviours are influenced by
leadership practices and organisational climate. However, few studies have
evaluated the organisational climate and leadership practices for innovation in the
Malaysian Research and Development (R&D) setting. The previous findings on
links between leadership practices and innovative work behaviours are reported to be
inconsistent with one another. Meanwhile, there are also critiques regarding the
measurement of leadership practices; organisational climate and innovative work
behaviours are believed to be biased towards the Western culture. Hence, this study
is timely to fill the existing research gap. This study was participated by ninety
seven respondents comprises of scientist, assistant scientist and research assistant
who are working in seven agricultural public agencies. The findings reported that
there is significant relationship between leadership practices, organisational climate
and innovative work behaviour. Therefore, the significant finding of the above
variables gives relevant condition to further analyse the mediating effect. Result
shows that organisational climate has been proven to have full mediating effect on
the relationship between leadership practices and innovative work behaviours. It can
also be deduced that leadership practices have an indirect effect on innovative work
behaviours through organisational climate. The theoretical perspective of this
present study contributes to the existing body of knowledge in the field of predicting
innovative work behaviours and also for the management to set the right
organisational climate for the workers to be innovative. |
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