أثر القيادة الريادية في سلوك العمل الابتكاري لأعضاء هيئة التدريس

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to investigate the impact of the entrepreneurial leadership of academic leaders on the faculty members' innovative work behavior at Al-Baha University.

The study followed the descriptive approach and adopted a quantitative research design.

The questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 307 individuals following the random convenience sampling technique.

The obtained data were processed by descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, and simple linear regression analysis.

The findings indicated a direct positive statistically significant impact of entrepreneurial leadership style on the innovative work behavior.

The entrepreneurial leadership explained 65.8% of the total variation in innovative work behavior.

The results also showed the availability of entrepreneurial leadership traits among academic leaders to a medium degree and the availability of faculty members' innovative work behavior traits to a high degree, with averages of 2.79, 3.43 respectively.

Additionally, the Findings revealed statistically significant differences in favor of assistant professor rank regarding the availability of the traits of innovative work behavior among faculty members.