Transformational Leadership, Organisational Climate and Organizational Trust; Is It Trigger to Innovative Work Behavior?

Abstract

In disruptive era and increasingly competitive world today, innovative work behaviour is the basic foundation for organisations to create a brilliant work process, services and products. With the increasingly complex and multitasking work of lecturers, innovative behavior is needed to carry out their duties. This study examines the effect of transformational leadership, organisational climate and organisational trust on the innovative work behaviour of lecturers working on Open Distance Learning (ODL) Context. This research was conducted at the headquarters of the largest Open Distance Learning higher education institution in Indonesia and uses a correlational quantitative approach, involving 100 randomly selected respondents. Descriptive Statistic and Ordinary Least Square is used for analyze the data. Findings showed that organizational climate has the greatest effect on improving innovative work behavior, followed by transformational leadership and organizational trust. Therefore organisational climate, transformational leadership and organisational trust can be developed into a valuable strategy in order to improve innovative work behaviour.