The Impact of Leadership on Employee Innovative Work Behaviour in Facilities Management Service Providers in Oman

Abstract

Employee innovative work behavior (EIWB) within organizations plays a key role in achieving the goals of the organization. The current study describes the level of employee innovative work behavior among Facility Management (FM) service providers in Oman and the effect of leadership on employee innovative work behavior before then after an employee motivation has been included as mediator. It focuses on mid-level managers, technicians and supervisors of FM service providers in Oman. Self-structured questionnaire that utilized a set of questions which measure leadership, employees' motivation besides employee innovative work behaviour used as a data collection instrument. Sample size was 320 employees from four FM service providers. The regression analysis identified employees' motivation partially mediates the relationship among leadership and employees innovative work behavior. Additionally, the mean values show that the levels of employee innovative work behavior among employees are moderately high. The outcomes of this paper recommend that leadership, presence an influential-motivation instrument for depicting the innovative work. The current paper offers an insight into workers ' creative change in work behavior arising from leadership and enthusiasm for their career and organization. Besides drawbacks, the paper also addressed the implications.