The effect of servant leadership on the nature of innovation through organizational learning in non-profit sports organizations: the moderating role of organizational capacity

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the moderating role of organizational capacity on the relationship between servant leadership and the nature of innovation through organizational learning. In terms of the applied purpose, this research is a descriptive correlation type in terms of the method of data collection. Managers and employees of non-profit sports organizations (Northwest sports teams) constitute the statistical population of this research, 150 people were selected as samples using available sampling method. In the present study, from the standard questionnaire of servant leadership style of Lu (2017); Prasad and Jouni standard questionnaire of organizational innovation (2016); The standard organizational learning questionnaire of Pham and Swireszek (2006) and Abdi's standard capacity building questionnaire (2016) were used. Smart PLS3 software was used for data analysis. The results of the hypotheses test showed that the effect of servant leadership on the nature of innovation both directly and through organizational learning in non-profit sports organizations is positive and significant. But the moderating role of organizational capacity was not reported in the significant model.