Abstract: Leadership has been suggested to be an important factor affecting innovation. A number of studies have shown that transformational leadership positively influences organizational innovation. However, there is lack of studies examining the contextual conditions under which this effect occurs or is augmented. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on organizational innovativeness in the mobile telecommunication firms in Kakamega County. Organizational innovativeness is how organizations develop new or improved products or services and its success in bringing those products or services to the market. Transformational leadership was hypothesized to have a positive influence on organizational innovation. Inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation and idealized influence have been found to be major influence of organizational innovativeness. The target population of study for this research comprised of the top managers, middle level managers and support staff of Safaricom, Airtel and Telkom firms within the Kakamega County. A sample size of 289 employees was used. Semi-structured questionnaires were used for collecting information from the telecommunication firms. Data was collected using questionnaires and was analyzed by use descriptive (mean, standard deviation, Frequency & percentage) and inferential (Correlation and Regression) with significance level of 0.05. The research instrument was found to be reliable 0.811>0.7. The findings revealed that inspirational motivation had significant effect on organizational innovativeness (R=0.674). Up to 45.4% of the variance in organizational innovativeness is significantly accounted for by Inspirational motivation. The research findings were found that the β1=.667, P value=.000 of inspirational motivation which means it influences organizational innovativeness positively. Transformational leadership is recommended to be embraced by other firms in the government and nongovernmental organizations for innovativeness.
Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Mobile Telecommunication Firms, Organizational Innovativeness, inspirational motivation.
Title: Influence of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Innovativeness in Mobile Telecommunication Firms in Kakamega County, Kenya
Author: Lung’atso Auka Modesta, Mr. Barack Okello
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
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