Effect of Entrepreneurial Leadership on Employees Innovative Work Behavior; Mediation Role of Job Crafting and Moderation Role of Organizational Culture: The Case of Ethio-Telecom
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2024-01-20
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The purpose of this research is to examine how innovative work behaviors of employees are influenced by entrepreneurial leadership, with a focus on job crafting and organizational culture as mediators and moderators respectively. Due to the significant shortages of contextual knowledge on the issue under study and for the enrichment of empirical research, the study examined the empirical literature gap and contextual gap in this particular area of study. Using an explanatory research design and a cross-sectional study approach, data were gathered by random sampling technique. Primary and secondary sources of data were collected from human resource department documents and questionnaire response of randomly selected (369) employees of the ethio-telecom headquarters, of which 291 were found to be appropriate for analysis. The questionnaire item sources were literature related with the area and previous studies that are standardized. The study used structural equation modelling (SEM) and factor analysis (CFA) utilizing principal component analysis to test the proposed research model. SPSS version 20 and Amos version 26 tools were used for the various sorts of regression, moderation and mediation analysis. The findings suggested that job crafting plays a partially complementary mediation role in the link between entrepreneurial leadership and innovative work behavior. The moderating effect of organizational culture in between the predictor and variable is negatively significant. This study reveals how crucial entrepreneurial leadership is in encouraging creative work behavior among employees in the ethio-telecom headquarters. The study conclusions imply that managers can foster employees' initiation of creativity through job-crafting behaviors, which in turn encourages employees to exhibit innovative behavior and improves innovation at the organizational level.