An Impact of Self-leadership on Innovative Behaviour in Sports Educators and Understanding of Advanced Research

Abstract

Having a success in continuous innovation within an organization relies on innovative behaviour among organizational members. This study aims to recognize the importance of self-leadership with which one can lead oneself and look at the relationship between self-leadership and innovative behaviour among members in a sports organization and which role job satisfaction among members play in such a relationship. As a result of regression analysis based on the data of 197 sports educators, it is found that self-leadership has a static relationship with the innovative behaviour among members and job satisfaction among members partially mediates such a relationship. Unlike the existing empirical researches, this study organizes the previous researches on the relationship between self-leadership vs. innovative behaviour to help understand the researches. Also, this study finds a few of research results that examined the relationship between self-leadership and innovative behaviour among members from a special organization, sports organization and contributes to the expanded generalization of antecedent research findings. At the same time, this study reveals the mediating effect of job satisfaction to contribute to the enhanced understanding of the dynamics between self-leadership and innovative behaviour.