The Influence of Vision-based Leadership on Employees' Creative Behavior Considering the Role of Organizational Inertia and Extra-Role Behaviors of University Employees

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

2 Assistant Professor of Public Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

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

10.22098/ael.2023.13816.1355

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating impact of vision-based leadership on employees' creative behavior with regard to the role of organizational inertia and extra-role behaviors of employees (knowledge donation behavior and organizational citizenship behavior ) in Yazd University of Medical Sciences. The method of this study is practical in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection.The statistical population of present study included the headquarters staff of Yazd University of Medical Sciences (310 people), that sample size 172 people were selected through available sampling. The tool for collecting field data in this research was standard questionnaires, that the validity and reliability of measurement tool was confirmed and analysis method used in this research was the structural equation modeling technique. The results of research showed that, vision-based leadership has a significant impact on organizational citizenship behavior. also, organizational inertia and organizational citizenship behavior play a mediating role in relationship between vision-based leadership and employees' creative behavior. also, knowledge donation behaviors have a moderating role in impact of organizational inertia on employees' creative behavior. The results of present research showed that vision-based leadership can find many innovative techniques to deal with organizational stagnation by anticipating threats and opportunities in future, and when it transfers its vision, knowledge, and ideas to its employees, and also, employees share their knowledge, it will foster creativity of employees and reduce organizational inertia, and also, vision-based leadership reduces inertia and increases employees' creative behavior by creating organizational citizen behavior in employees.

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  • Receive Date: 14 October 2023
  • Revise Date: 05 November 2023
  • Accept Date: 11 November 2023

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