THE EFFECT OF PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP ON INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOUR: A MEDIATING ROLE OF SELF-EFFICACY

Abstract

In today’s fast changing world, technology and innovation are considered integral part of the organizations’ success. Leading those organizations need leadership that promote the innovation and creativity keeping in mind the well being of most important resource of the organization i.e., employees. According to the Job  demand and resource model, low levels of leadership affect employees’ work demand while high levels of leadership will increase the work resources of employees. Job resources have been shown to be strongly and positively associated with teachers’ well-being and job satisfaction which in return increase their self efficacy. Higher levels of self efficacy of employees result in positive outcomes. They tend to solve problems on their own by finding innovative solutions to deal with challenges. The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of participative leadership on innovative work behaviour with the mediating affect of self efficacy. A total of 323 respondents were chosen from privates schools of Peshawar, KPK region. The results of analysis showed that participative leadership has a positive effect on self efficacy with in return positively affect innovative work behaviour of the employees. Also the direct effect of participative leadership on innovative work behaviour was significant.