Fostering innovation through ethical leadership, affective commitment, and knowledge sharing
Anastasia M D Batmomolin
STPM Santa Ursula,
Indonesia
marianaitab@gmail.com
Justine Tanuwijaya
Universitas Trisakti,
Indonesia
justine@trisakti.ac.id
Bahtiar Usman
Universitas Trisakti,
Indonesia
bahtiar.deteo@gmail.com
Abstract
In the midst of intense competition and rapid changes, employees’ innovative behavior is crucial as it determines the organization’s sustainability. This quantitative study seeks to explore how ethical leadership and affective commitment give impact on innovative work behavior, with knowledge sharing acting as a mediator. There were 333 private school teachers in Indonesia responded to an online questionnaire and became the research participants. The research data underwent analysis through Structural Equation Modeling using AMOS version 24.0. The results of the study indicate that ethical leadership and affective commitment directly and indirectly influence the innovative work behavior. Knowledge sharing has a positive effect on innovative work behavior and serves as a mediator for the influence of ethical leadership and affective commitment on innovative work behavior. The implications of this research are significant for education leaders, especially in the appointment of school principals or preparing prospective school leaders, and in managing employee behavior to foster and enhance innovation.
Keywords: affective commitment; ethical leadership; innovative work behavior; knowledge sharing