Investigating The Role of Intelligent Leadership And Innovative Organizational Climate on Organizational Loyalty And Organizational Resilience Mediated By Organizational Knowledge-Creation on Teachers of High Schools In Chaharmahal And Bakhtiari Province

Document Type : Quantitative Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Educational Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University,Hamedan, Iran.

2 PhD Student in Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University,Hamedan, Iran.

3 Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

10.22034/jsa.2023.62699

Abstract

The aim of this research was to investigate the role of intelligent leadership and innovative organizational climate in organizational loyalty and organizational resilience with the mediation of teachers' organizational knowledge-creation. The study population included all high schools teachers in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. A sample of 2687 teachers were selected using the proportional stratified random sampling method based on the Cochran formula. The quantitative research method was of a correlation type and a covariance-oriented structural equation modeling approach. The questionnaires used for collecting the data consisted of the researcher-made questionnaire of intelligent leadership based on Sidanmanlaka's model (2008), the researcher-made questionnaire of organizational knowledge-creation based on Nonoka and Takeuchi's model (2006), the organizational loyalty questionnaire of Wells, et al. (2011), the Siegel and Kaymer’s innovative organizational climate questionnaire (1978), the Prayag et al.'s organizational resilience questionnaire (2018). The reliability and validity of the questionnaires were examined using Cronbach's alpha technique and techniques of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis of the first and second order, respectively. In order to analyze the data and test the research hypotheses, The results revealed that. Intelligent leadership, through organizational knowledge-creation, has a positive and significant indirect impact on teachers'’ organizational loyalty and organizational resilience. innovative organizational climate, through organizational knowledge-creation, has a positive and significant indirect influence on organizational loyalty and organizational resilience

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