Strategic Leadership, Readiness for Change, and Innovative Work Behavior

Abstract

At the present time, business work environments are becoming more volatile and competitive. The development of information technologies, rapid changes of organizational structures, changeable customer attitudes are more important for today's organizations. These features of the marketplace direct organizations to be in search of new methods to achieve and maintain sustainable performance. Leadership, employee favorable work behavior, technological investments are some methods to provide continuity of an organization's existence. This chapter aims to obtain influence of strategic leadership on the employees' innovative work behavior. Furthermore, it is expected to obtain the mediator role of readiness for change in this relation. In the study, the sample is composed of four-star hotel employees in Antalya, Turkey. This evidence-based field study proves new implementation's impact on the employees.