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Title Innovative Work Behavior in IT Professionals: Studying the relationship between Self-Leadership and Work Engagement

Author(s) WAQAS AHMAD

Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the association between Self leadership and Innovative Work Behavior among IT professional in local context and to investigate the mediating role of Work Engagement in this relationship. The data were collected through convenient sampling technique from 300 male and female IT professional from different sectors and organizations of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa. A cross-sectional research design was used to conduct the data of the present study. The English version of all the questionnaire were used to measure variables. Self-report measures of Abbreviated Self leadership Questionnaire by Houghton, Dawley and DiLiello (2012), Work Engagement Scale by De Jong and Den Hartog, (2008) and Innovative Work Behavior by Sahira Zaman (2006) were used to measure the variables of interest. For the present sample, the Alpha coefficient reliability of the test scores for these measures ranged from .70 to .79 that was in acceptable range and quite satisfactory. The findings of the study indicated that Self-leadership was significantly correlated with Innovative work behavior and Work engagement. Moreover, mediation models were tested to investigate the relationship between the Self-leadership and Innovative work behavior work using Work engagement and its three aspects as mediator. Using regression analysis, results suggested a significant change in the relationships after adding the mediators. The study provided evidences that Work engagement mediated the relationship between Self-leadership and Innovative Work Behavior.

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Department Psychology

Language English

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