Impact of Empowering Leadership on Open Innovation in relation to the role of organizational learning culture

Today organizational learning culture have been considered and can play a significant role in the relationship between of Empowering Leadership and Open Innovation.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between empowering leadership on open innovation and considering organizational learning culture variable as a mediating variable

The research method was descriptive-survey and an applied one. The statistical population included all the employees working in the central headquarters of the Social Security Organization which added to 1200 people. The sampling method was Random Sampling. Using Cochran’s formula 292 people were chosen as the sample size. To gather the data , standard questionnaires were used .Structural equation modeling (SEM) was adopted for data analysis.

According to the results, there is a significant relationship between empowering leadership with organizational learning culture and open innovation, as well as between organizational learning culture with open innovation. It was also found that empowering leadership through organizational learning culture has an impact on open innovation. Organizational learning culture acts as a mediating variable in the relationship between empowering leadership and open innovation.

This finding means that in the Social Security Organization the emphasis on the Organizational learning culture can not only have a positive effect on the Empowering leadership, but also significantly affects the Open innovation. Therefore managers must pay special attention to it in the organization