The Influence of Leader Member Exchange and Followership on Employees Innovative Work Behavior (A Study in Universitas Gadjah Mada)

• Main Authors: , Nurma Diani Sekarsih, , Prof. Dr. Jamaludin Ancok, MA.
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2012
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/98794/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=55034
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Universitas Gadjah Mada is the oldest and the largest state university in Indonesia which envisioned itself to be a world class research university. In order to be so, this organization must undergo transformational change in which innovation becomes the key for it. As an organization with 6,977 employees, the university needs to involve these employees as partner in achieving its goals, as their innovative work behavior is needed in the endeavor. Among others, the factors that affected innovative work behavior are leader � member exchange and followership. This research intended to describe how leader � member exchange and followership affect innovative work behavior of the employees in Universitas Gadjah Mada. Research was conducted in 18 faculties at Universitas Gadjah Mada in which the non academic civil servants are the population. Samples were taken using purposive sampling technique. The data collection was conducted in two stages, the pre-test and main test. Pre-test was conducted on 30 respondents of the central office, while the main test was conducted by sending out 270 questionnaires to the respondents in 18 faculties. Likert scale is used for data measurement technique. The hypotheses in this research were: leader � member exchange positively influences innovative work behavior