Causal Relationship between Leadership Worldview and Organizational Innovation across Organizational Mindfulness: Administrative Staff at University of Isfahan

Subject Areas : Business Management

seyed hedayatollah davarpanah ¹ , seyed ali siadat ² , arash yadollahi dehcheshmeh ³

1 - PhD Candidate of Higher Education Management, Department of Education, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Professor, Department of Education, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Ph.D. Candidate of Higher Education Management, Department of Education, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2019-08-29 Accepted : 2020-08-23 Published : 2021-03-21

Keywords: University of Isfahan, organizational innovation, Structural Model, Leadership Worldview, Organizational Mindfulness, Administrative Staff,

Abstract :

The present descriptive Interrelational research set out to examine causal relationship between leadership worldview and organizational innovation with a focus on the mediating role of organizational mindfulness. The research population included 344 administrative staff at University of Isfahan from 2017-2018. A sample of 182 was randomly selected using the proportional stratified sampling procedure. The researcher data were obtained through a researcher-made questionnaire measuring leadership worldview, the organizational innovation questionnaire and organizational mindfulness questionnaire.The instruments were initially validated and their reliability coefficients were estimated through Cronbach Alpha and found to be 0.88, 0.91 and 0.72, respectively. The collected data were analyzed via SPSS software version 23 and Amos.  Results indicated that the revised proposed causal model enjoyed a good fit index and that the research variables could explain 41 and 31 percent of the variance in organizational mindfulness and organizational innovation. Overall, the findings revealed that organizational mindfulness, along with entrepreneurial and network worldviews, had direct significant positive effects on organizational innovation, while the direct effect of communitarian and regulatory worldviews on organizational innovation was found to be insignificant. Moreover, the leadership worldview dimensions were found to have significant positive and direct effect on organizational mindfulness and indirect effect on organizational innovation which is mediated through organizational mindfulness.

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