Improving of Employees Flourishing and Innovative Work Behavior through Leadership Style and Ethics in the Organization; Case study: General Department of Sports and Youth of Fars Province

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant professor, Department of Public Administration, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant professor, Department of Sport Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

3 MSc. , Department of Public Administration, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Purpose: The present research was conducted with the purpose of improving of employees flourishing and innovative work behavior through leadership style and ethics in the organization that was done in the General Department of Sports and Youth of Fars province.
Method: The current research was practical in terms of its aim and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the present study was all the employees of the General Department of Sports and Youth of Fars province (150 people); that sample size of 130 people was selected through available sampling. The data collection tool in this research was standard questionnaires and analysis method used in this research was the structural equation modeling technique.
Results: The findings of the research showed that the empowering leadership and spirituality at workplace had a positive and significant effect on innovative work behavior both directly and through the mediating variable of employee flourishing; Also, the effect of employee flourishing on innovative work behavior confirmed. Finally, it was found that satisfaction at workplace had a moderating role in the relationship between spirituality at workplace and innovative work behavior.
Conclusion: The results of the research showed that the factor of leadership style and the factor of spirituality at workplace were among the important factors that influence the innovative work behavior of employees. According to social exchange theory, fair treatment and support of an empowering leadership from followers encourages them to behave innovatively at workplace.

Keywords

References

  • Afsar, B., Masood, M., & Umrani, W. A. (2019). The role of job crafting and knowledge sharing on the effect of transformational leadership on innovative work behavior. Personnel Review, 48(4) 1-24.
  • Ahearne, M., Mathieu, J., & Rapp, A. (2005). To empower or not to empower your sales force? An empirical examination of the influence of leadership empowerment behavior on customer satisfaction and performance. Journal of Applied psychology, 90(5), 945.
  • Arnold, J. A., Arad, S., Rhoades, J. A., & Drasgow, F. (2000). The empowering leadership questionnaire: The construction and validation of a new scale for measuring leader behaviors. Journal of organizational behavior, 21(3), 249-269.
  • Ashforth, B. E., & Mael, F. (1989). Social identity theory and the organization. Academy of management review, 14(1), 20-39.
  • Baker, W. E., Mukherjee, D., & Perin, M. G. (2022). Learning orientation and competitive advantage: A critical synthesis and future directions. Journal of Business Research, 144, 863-873.
  • Biemann, T., Kearney, E., & Marggraf, K. (2015). Empowering leadership and managers' career perceptions: Examining effects at both the individual and the team level. The Leadership Quarterly, 26(5), 775-789.
  • Carmeli, A., Meitar, R., & Weisberg, J. (2006). Self‐leadership skills and innovative behavior at work. International journal of manpower.
  • Carnevale, J. B., Huang, L., Crede, M., Harms, P., & Uhl‐Bien, M. (2017). Leading to stimulate employees' ideas: A quantitative review of leader–member exchange, employee voice, creativity, and innovative behavior. Applied Psychology, 66(4), 517-552.
  • Chen, S., Jiang, W., Zhang, G., & Chu, F. (2019). Spiritual leadership on proactive workplace behavior: The role of organizational identification and psychological safety. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 1206.
  • Colbert, A. E., Bono, J. E., & Purvanova, R. K. (2016). Flourishing via workplace relationships: Moving beyond instrumental support. Academy of Management Journal, 59(4), 1199-1223.
  • Crant, J. M. (2000). Proactive behavior in organizations. Journal of management, 26(3), 435-462.
  • Davari, A., & Rezazadeh, A. (2014). Structural equation modeling with PLS software. Tehran: Academic Jahad Publishing Organization. [In Persian]
  • Dehghanizadeh, M., & Ahmadi, F. (2024). Antecedents of Employees' Innovative Behavior; Emphasizing the Role of Meaningful Work, Thriving at Workplace and Self-leadership of Employees. Innovation Management in Defensive Organizations, 7(1). [in persian]
  • De Jong, D. D. H., & Hartog, D. N. (2010). Measuring Innovative Work Behaviour, Creativity and Innovative Management. Journal of Management, 19, 23-36.
  • Diener, E. (1984). Subjective well-being. Psychological bulletin, 95(3), 542.
  • Diener, E., Lucas, R. E., & Oishi, S. (2018). Advances and open questions in the science of subjective well-being. Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), 1-49.
  • Diener, E., Wirtz, D., Tov, W., Kim-Prieto, C., Choi, D. W., Oishi, S., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2010). New well-being measures: Short scales to assess flourishing and positive and negative feelings. Social indicators research, 97, 143-156.
  • Dorenbosch, L., Engen, M. L. V., & Verhagen, M. (2005). On‐the‐job innovation: The impact of job design and human resource management through production ownership. Creativity and innovation management, 14(2), 129-141.
  • Garg, S., & Dhar, R. (2017). Employee service innovative behavior: The roles of leader-member exchange (LMX), work engagement, and job autonomy. International Journal of Manpower, 38(2), 242-258.
  • Guo, Y., Peng, Y., & Zhu, Y. (2023). How does empowering leadership motivate employee innovative behavior: A job characteristics perspective? Current Psychology, 42(21), 18280-18290.
  • Hammond, M. M., Neff, N. L., Farr, J. L., Schwall, A. R., & Zhao, X. (2011). Predictors of individual-level innovation at work: A meta-analysis. Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts, 5(1), 90.
  • Hoang, G., Luu, T. T., Du, T., & Nguyen, T. T. (2023). Can both entrepreneurial and ethical leadership shape employees’ service innovative behavior? Journal of Services Marketing, 37(4), 446-463.
  • Hobfoll, S. E. (2002). Social and psychological resources and adaptation. Review of general psychology, 6(4), 307-324.
  • Hunsaker, W. D. (2022). Spiritual leadership and employee innovation. Current Psychology, 41(8), 5048-5057.
  • Imran, M. Y., Elahi, N. S., Abid, G., Ashfaq, F., & Ilyas, S. (2020). Impact of perceived organizational support on work engagement: Mediating mechanism of thriving and flourishing. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 6(3), 82-99.
  • Jankowski, P. J., Sandage, S. J., Wang, D. C., & Hill, P. (2022). Relational spirituality profiles and flourishing among emerging religious leaders. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 17(5), 665-678.
  • Janssen, O. (2000). Job demands, perceptions of effort‐reward fairness and innovative work behaviour. Journal of Occupational and organizational psychology, 73(3), 287-302.
  • Kang, H., Song, M., & Li, Y. (2022). Self-Leadership and Innovative Behavior: Mediation of Informal Learning and Moderation of Social Capital. Behavioral Sciences, 12(11), 443.
  • Kohn, A. (1993). Why incentive plans cannot work. Harvard business review, 71(5), 54-60.
  • Lecic, M. S., Milic, B., Visnjic, R., & Culibrk, J. (2023). Leadership, Innovative Behavior and the Case of Innovative Climate-When the Mediator Becomes the Mediated. Behavioral Sciences, 13(1), 40.
  • Lv, M., Jiang, S. M., Chen, H., & Zhang, S. X. (2022). Authentic leadership and innovation behaviour among nurses in China: A mediation model of work engagement. Journal of Nursing Management.
  • Ma, Y., Chen, M., Guo, H., Fan, W., & Lai, L. (2023). The influence of transformational tutor style on postgraduate students’ innovative behavior: the mediating role of creative self-efficacy. International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, 2023.
  • Martin, S. L., Liao, H., & Campbell, E. M. (2013). Directive versus empowering leadership: A field experiment comparing impacts on task proficiency and proactivity. Academy of management Journal, 56(5), 1372-1395.
  • Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological review, 50(4), 370.
  • Milliman, J., Czaplewski, A. J., & Ferguson, J. (2003). Workplace spirituality and employee work attitudes: An exploratory empirical assessment. Journal of organizational change management, 16(4), 426-447.
  • Montani, F., Sommovigo, V., Torres, C., Courcy, F., Ferreira, M. C., Mendonça, H., & Silva, A. J. (2022). When do innovators flourish? The role of interpersonal goals in the relationship between innovative work behavior and flourishing. Personality and Individual Differences, 199, 111833.
  • Nazir, S., Qun, W., Hui, L., & Shafi, A. (2018). Influence of social exchange relationships on affective commitment and innovative behavior: Role of perceived organizational support. Sustainability, 10(12), 4418.
  • Pawar, B. S. (2016). Workplace spirituality and employee well-being: an empirical examination. Employee relations, 38(6), 975-994.
  • Pfeffer, J. (2010). Business and the spirit: Management practices that sustain values. In Handbook of workplace spirituality and organizational performance (pp. 43-59). Routledge.
  • Ranasinghe, V. R., & Samarasinghe, S. M. (2019). The effect of workplace spirituality on innovative work behavior. . International Business Research, 12(12), 29-38.
  • Rao Jada, U., Mukhopadhyay, S., & Titiyal, R. (2019). Empowering leadership and innovative work behavior: a moderated mediation examination. Journal of Knowledge Management, 23(5), 915-930.
  • Ryff, C. D. (1989). Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being. Journal of personality and social psychology, 57(6), 1069.
  • Sahaming, M. H., & Sariwulan, T. (2022). Leader Member-Exchange and Job Involvement Impact on Innovative Work Behavior. International Journal of Science and Society, 4(2), 365-374.
  • Singh, N., Bamel, U., & Vohra, V. (2021). The mediating effect of meaningful work between human resource practices and innovative work behavior: a study of emerging market. Employee Relations: The International Journal, 43(2), 459-478.
  • Singh, S., Mahapatra, M., & Kumar, N. (2022). Empowering leadership and organizational culture: Collective influence on employee flourishing. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(S1), 2983-2993.
  • Slack, F. J., Orife, J. N., & Anderson, F. P. (2010). Effects of commitment to corporate vision on employee satisfaction with their organization: An empirical study in the United States. International Journal of management, 27(3), 421.
  • Spector, P. E. (1997). Job satisfaction: Application, assessment, causes, and consequences (Vol. 3). Sage.
  • Thiessen, J., Wong, A. C. K., McAlpine, B., & Walker, K. (2019). What is a flourishing congregation? Leader perceptions, definitions, and experiences. Review of Religious Research, 61, 13-37.
  • Usmanova, N., Yang, J., Sumarliah, E., Khan, S. U., & Khan, S. Z. (2021). Impact of knowledge sharing on job satisfaction and innovative work behavior: the moderating role of motivating language. VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems, 51(3), 515-532.
  • West, M. A., & Sacramento, C. A. (2006). Flourishing in teams: Developing creativity and innovation. Creative management and development, 3, 25-44.
  • Wong, S. C. K., & KO, A. (2009). Exploratory study of understanding hotel employees’ perception on work–life balance issues. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 28(2), 195-203.
  • Zhang, S. (2020). Workplace spirituality and unethical pro-organizational behavior: The mediating effect of job satisfaction. Journal of Business Ethics, 161, 687-705.
  • Zhang, Y., & Yang, F. (2021). How and when spiritual leadership enhances employee innovative behavior. Personnel Review, 50(2), 596-609.
  • Zhu, J., Yao, J., & Zhang, L. (2019). Linking empowering leadership to innovative behavior in professional learning communities: the role of psychological empowerment and team psychological safety. Asia Pacific Education Review, 20, 657-671.
  • Zou, W. C., Houghton, J. D., & Li, J. J. (2020). Workplace spirituality as a means of enhancing service employee well-being through emotional labor strategy choice. Current Psychology, 41, 5546–5561.

 

Research in Sport Management and Marketing
Volume 6, Issue 2
April 2025
Pages 43-58

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics