ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND STAFF INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOUR IN NIGERIA
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2020-06-01
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University of Karachi
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This study investigated ethical leadership and staff innovative behaviour in Nigeria. The
aims of this study are to find out the relationships that exist among ethical leadership
and staff innovative behaviour. This study also seeks to find the level of practice for the
parts in ethical leadership and staff innovative. Quantitative research design was
adopted in the study. Sample of 350 participants were randomly selected from the
sample university in line with Research Advisor (2006), table of determining sample size
of known population. Pearson correlations and linear regression analysis were used to
analyze the collected data. The findings show that leadership integrity, power sharing
and fairness positively and significantly correlated with staff innovative behaviour. The
result also shows that staff innovative behaviour can be influenced by ethics behaviour
of academic leaders. In order to improve staff innovative behaviour and development of
universities, academic leaders must demonstrate high standards of professional
conduct, encourage an open and transparent culture, develop framework that will
encourage staff to work together irrespective of their race, gender, religion or age, as
well as demonstrate effective fairness in terms of unbiased evaluation of staff
performance. If all these are put in place, staff innovative behaviour (self-efficacy,
knowledge sharing, and idea generation) will be achieved.
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Leadership integrity, power sharing, fairness, staff innovative behaviour, university, Nigeria