Impact of positive leadership behaviors on organizational innovation:
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2020
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
In service providing IT organizations, employees play a vital role. Positive
leadership quality of employees has an association with the innovation of
IT sectors of Lahore, Pakistan. It is mediated by positive cognitions of
employee’s i.e. psychological capital. This concept is enhanced by
“Cognitive Mediation Theory” which was proposed by Richard Lazarus.
This research study is based on investigating the impact of Authentic
Leadership and Transformational Leadership on IT sectors of Lahore,
Pakistan. This study had some objectives among which the first was to
examine the impact of Authentic Leadership and Transformational
Leadership on innovation of IT sectors at organizational level and it is
concluded that both variables are positively associated with organizational
innovation. Secondly, its objective is to assess the role of psychological
capital between leadership styles and organizational innovation of IT
sectors. Moreover, analysis suggests that the mediation of psychological
capital of employees in IT sectors between leadership styles and
organizational innovation, they are positively associated with each other.
Furthermore, both leadership styles also influence psychological capital of
employees and psychological capital is also positively associated with
organizational innovation of IT sectors. Data has been gathered from IT
sectors of Lahore, Pakistan through questionnaires of 290 sample size.
Results are analyzed through basic descriptive statistics and Partial Least
Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to associate the
relationship between the given variables under current study.