TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE, ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST, AND MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOUR OF OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING ACADEMICS IN INDONESIA

Abstract

The Open University of Indonesia faces increasingly unpredictable competition and disruption, therefore the need to make various innovations to adapt to rapid and sudden changes is a necessity. Innovation basically is the ideas and thoughts of individuals called innovative work behavior, where this becomes the basis for creating better process, service, and product innovations. This behavior cannot appear by itself but requires an environment that is created in such a way for its expression to grow and develop. This study aims to analyze the influence of transformational leadership, organizational trust, organizational climate with the mediating role of organizational commitment on the innovative work behavior of Open University lecturers. This research involved 100 Open Distance Learning Academics, collected data analyze by PLS SEM. The results shows that organizational commitment played as a mediator variable that strengthens the influence of transformational leadership, organizational trust, organizational climate, on the innovative work behavior of Open University lecturers. The results of this study can be an empirical reference for management to be able to develop and improve the innovative work behavior of UT lecturers through improving the organizational commitment and practice of transformational leadership, organizational trust, organizational climate.