Influence of Servant Leadership and Organizational Structure on Employee Innovative Behaviour in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
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2021
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KIU Journal of Humanities
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the
influence of Servant Leadership style on Innovative
Behavior of Employees in tertiary institutions,
analyzing information from 336 employees and 48
top management team using a convenience and
purposive sampling technique in selecting a sample
size of 384 from tertiary institutions in southwest,
Nigeria. Findings unveil servant leadership and
organizational structure positively relate to
employee’s innovative behaviour while a nexus also
exists between organizational structure and servant
leadership. This research contributes to the infantile
literatures on servant leadership style in promoting
employees innovative work behaviour.
Keywords: Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA),
Innovative work behaviour, Organizational structure,
Servant leadership, Tertiary institutions, Nigeria.