Empowerment leadership as a predictor of the organizational innovation in higher education

Supriyanto, Achmad Sani ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1519-3258, Ekowati, Vivin Maharani ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6013-0630, Rokhman, Wahibur, Ahamed, Forbis, Munir, Misbahul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3344-6845 and Miranti, Titis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8720-3809 (2023) Empowerment leadership as a predictor of the organizational innovation in higher education. International Journal of Professional Business Review, 8 (2). pp. 1-21. ISSN 2525-3654

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Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to examine the relationship between empowerment leadership and organizational innovation. This analyzes the influence of empowerment leadership on organizational innovation, whether knowledge sharing mediates the effect of empowerment leadership on individual creativity, if individual creativity moderates the influence of empowerment leadership on organizational innovation, and how psychological empowerment mediates the effect of leadership on individual creativity.
Theoretical framework: Empowerment leadership includes delegation of authority, participating in decision-making, informing employees about regulations, becoming a role model, showing concern, and interacting with the team members. Organizational innovation is the ability to generate and adopt new ideas or behaviors because it increases productivity and business performance. Knowledge sharing is a mechanism that fosters individual creative thinking and increases employees' creativity. Therefore, leaders tend to promote the practice of knowledge sharing by generating useful new ideas and thoughts.
Design/methodology/approach: Respondents are lecturers at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Islamic Higher Education (IHE) in Java, Indonesia, who have been selected as participants. Data were analyzed using the PLS-SEM to test the modified results of several models.
Findings: The results showed that empowerment leadership directly affects organizational innovation, knowledge sharing mediates the influence of empowerment leadership on Individual creativity howevet, it failed to mediate the effect of empowerment leadership on organizational innovation, while psychological empowerment failed to moderate the relationship between variables.
Research, Practical & Social implications: This study added distinctive supports to the leadership literature by identifying key leadership behaviors that foster or impair individual creativity, knowledge sharing and organizational innovation through investigating their relationships with leadership styles in the same research model.
Originality/value: This study indicates that empowerment leadership majorly affects organizational innovation. Furthermore, knowledge sharing plays an important role by mediating between variables for the development of organizational innovation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	empowerment leadership; knowledge sharing; individual creativity; psychological empowerment; organizational innovation
Subjects:	15 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 1503 Business and Management > 150305 Human Resources Management 15 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 1503 Business and Management > 150310 Organisation and Management Theory 15 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 1503 Business and Management > 150311 Organisational Behaviour 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education 15 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 1599 Other Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
Divisions:	Faculty of Economics > Department of Management
Depositing User:	Vivin Maharani Ekowati
Date Deposited:	27 Apr 2023 13:30

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