Transformational Leadership and Innovative Work Behavior

In the Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) era, organization in complex businesses and competitive environments with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. In this context, the development of innovation is required to survive through work behavior. Therefore, this research aimed to explore the influence of transformational leadership on work behavior of employees, considering meaningful work as a mediating variable. The moderating role of ambidextrous organizational culture is also tested on ASN (civil servant) at the Indonesia Ministry of X (N = 210) using the self-report data collection method. The data were analyzed using the PROCESS Model 15 statistical method developed by Hayes. The result showed that meaningful work mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and innovative work behavior (B = 0.50, CI 95% [.15, .42]). Moreover, ambidextrous organizational culture played a significant role as a moderator of the direct relationship between the variables (B = 0.3449, p .05). Practical and innovative contributions were also provided to practitioners of industrial and organizational psychology, as well as ASN in exploring innovative work behavior

Leadership style · Mediation · Moderated mediation · Moderation · Social science · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Work behavior · Education and Professional Development · Educational Innovations and Challenges · Educational Methods and Teacher Development · Engineering · Psychology · Social Psychology · Mechanical Engineering