TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP STYLE AND INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR ON INNOVATIVE CLIMATE AT SMES IN IRAN

Abstract

This paper reviews the impact of transformational leadership on innovation at the organizational climate. In every organization, many factors exist which may reinforce this linkage. Accordingly, organizational culture may be one of them. Through this factor, organizations and leaders try to make a natural and foundational framework that helps the organization and individuals to accept creativity and innovation in the heart of all the changes that are happening as a basic cultural norm. In this regard looking for the moderating role of organizational culture in this relation will be a further objective of this research. Population of the study is all workers of Ardabil Province SMEs in Iran. We determined the amount of the sample size with the used of p.q sampling method, which the statistical sample is 150 of these workers which have been selected through the simple random sampling method. To gathering of
data, we used three standard questionnaires. In order to analyze the data resulted from collected questionnaires deductive and descriptive statistical methods are used, and to display some statistical data we used column diagram and in deductive level to test the hypothesis of the research we used multiple correlation and Regression coefficient. Finding showed the mediating role of innovative climate in the relationship between intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, individual consideration and innovative behavior (P<0.01), but the mediating role of innovative climate in the relationship between ideal influence and systematic problem solving method (P<0.01) was not proved.