The Relationship between of Authentic Leadership and Organizational innovation with the Mediating Role of Attitude to Organizational Change

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between of authentic leadership and organizational innovation with the mediating role of attitude to organizational change. The research applied in terms of purpose and method was descriptive, correlational one. The statistical population included all Primary school teachers in Miandrood in the number of 255. The statistical sample was 155 people using Krejcie and Morgan table and stratified random sampling according to Gender level. The instruments were Questionnaires of Walumbwa et al authentic leadership (2008), Jimenez- Jimenez et al organizational innovation (2008) & Dunham et al attitude to organizational change (1989) Questionnaire. The collected data analyzed by Structural equation modeling using the partial least squares method (PLS). The results showed there is a significant relationship between authentic leadership and attitude to organizational change with organizational innovation. 66.1% of organizational innovation and 48.7% of attitude to organizational change is explained by authentic leadership and the attitude to organizational change variable has a mediator effect on the relationship between authentic leadership and organizational innovation. Fit indices indicate that the proposed model is an appropriate fit.