Leadership framework intensifies innovation culture in an organization

• Main Authors: Mohamed Baqutayan, Shadiya, Jamaluddin, Norhashima, Omar, Hazizi, Hashmi Parvez, Dania
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Akademia Baru 2018
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80452/1/ShadiyaMohamedBaqutayan2018_LeadershipFrameworkIntensifiesInnovationCulture.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80452/; http://www.akademiabaru.com/doc/ARSBSV10_N1_P33_49.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The exit of third revolution, paving the way for population of the world treads into the beginning of fourth industry revolution. Indeed the organizations in 22nd century will catalyst as medium for culture of innovation. Innovation has become a necessity in boosting the nation’s economic prowess. Necessarily a culture of innovation routinely touted as the key to achieve it in today’s era. This is a culture that is holding the majority of organizations around the world to sustain total growth. Hence the leaders of an organization from every industry and sector will face with multi challenges to optimize leadership capability. Therefore many scholars assume that both leadership and organization culture play important roles in fostering innovation. However there are not many options for researchers to explore comprehensive framework, which provide linkage of leadership appropriately with intensifies the innovation culture in an organization. Responding of this phenomenon, understanding leadership in relation of augmenting the innovation pivotal in creating sustainable organizations spheres. The mutual leadership and innovation has greatly unraveled abundantly by researchers through their work since decade ago to finetune the continuation. Backed by the strength of these fabric, this research paper promulgated the leadership of which was related to the culture of innovation in an organization, closely connected of leadership purview. The establishment of the framework constituted by qualitative analysis of quality literature reviews and selected case study of most innovative organization. Framework developed with right balance of integrated and directive linkage the innovation culture with wide angles of leadership for concerted effort of intensifying innovation culture. Furthermore this framework expected to be an avenue for researchers for any related structured research in fusion of leadership and innovation in the future.