Analysis of the Effect of Ethical Leadership on the Innovative Behavior of Employees with the Mediating Variable of Voice Behavior of Employees and Psychological Safety among the Employees of the Information and Communication Technology Organization of Mashhad Municipality
نویسندگان
1 Master of Public Administration, Attar Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor of Management Department, Attar Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran.
doi
10.30470/er.2024.2013829.1263چکیده
The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the effect of ethical leadership on the innovative behavior of employees with the mediating variable of employees' voice behavior and psychological security among the employees of Mashhad Municipality's Information and Communication Technology Organization. The sample of this research was 200 employees of Mashhad Municipality's Information and Communication Technology Organization, and the sample size was determined by Cochran's sampling method of 127 people. In order to measure the research variables, the questionnaire of Jain et al. (2022) was used. To measure the validity of the research questionnaire, convergent validity and divergent validity were used and Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability were used to measure the reliability. In order to analyze descriptive and inferential data, the SPSS software and SmartPLS structural equation modeling were used. The results of the research showed that ethical leadership had a positive and significant effect on the voice behavior of the employees of the Information and Communication Technology Organization of Mashhad Municipality with a coefficient of 0.67. Ethical leadership had a positive and significant effect on the innovative behavior of the employees of the organization with a coefficient of 0.56. The voice behavior of the employees had a positive and significant effect on the innovative behavior of the employees with a coefficient of 0.338. Also, the mediating role of the employees' voice behavior in the effect of moral leadership and their innovative behavior was confirmed with a coefficient of 4.89, but the moderating role of psychological security in the effect of ethical leadership on the voice behavior of the employees of the organization was not confirmed with a coefficient of 1.40.