Purpose The leadership shift from conventional to digital comes from the compulsory digitalization of the workplace because the technological progress provides the opportunity of doing work remotely, and this is a great advantage of reducing costs that stem from the offline workplace. Thus, this research aims at demonstrating the relationship between digitalization of leadership and innovative work behavior. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 320 Turkish department managers in the Textile Industry through digital leadership and innovate work behavior scales. The hypotheses were tested using path analysis. The analyses were conducted by using SPSS and AMOS package programs. Findings The results show that the employees’ perceptions of digital leadership have a positive and significant effect on all dimensions of an employee innovative work behavior. Also, the leaders with high digital skills were perceived positively by the employees and the employees tend to adapt innovative behaviors when they have the digitally skilled leaders. Originality/value This study contributes to leadership research by providing evidence for the role of leadership shift in innovative work behavior. Extending the verification of leadership shift in innovative work behavior that can be adopted in Turkey has also been considered.

This study has analyzed, by examining the relationship between empowerment and innovativeness which are significant concepts for organizations, how empowerment efforts affect innovativeness, and how behavioural, psychological, and social and structural dimensions of empowerment affects innovativeness. As a result of these examinations, all the hypotheses which comprised our research have been accepted. In other words, it has been concluded that the behavioural, psychological, and social and structural empowerment efforts concerning the employees have a highly positive impact on innovativeness, and that the simultaneous application of behavioural, psychological, and social and structural empowerment has an impact of high degree on innovativeness.

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the proactive personality on the political skills of the administrative staff working at the university. For this purpose, Proactive Personality Scale (Claes et.al., 2005) and Political Skill Inventory (Ferris et.al.:2005) were conducted for university administrative staff. The relationship between proactive personality traits and political skills of the staff was determined through correlation and regression analysis. As a result, it has been found that proactive personality has a significant effect in explaining both its general political skill and its sub-dimensions.

Liderlik, işletmelerin amaçlarını gerçekleştirmek için oldukça önemlidir. Liderlerin sergiledikleri davranışlar çalışanlar üzerinde etkili olmaktadır. Bu etkilerden en önemlilerinden birisi de çalışanların tükenmişlik düzeyleri üzerinde olmaktadır. Yapılan araştırmalarda, genellikle liderliğin olumlu türleri ele alınmış ve liderlik tarzıyla çalışanların tükenmişlik düzeyi arasında güçlü ilişkilerin olduğu belirtilmektedir. Bu araştırma da ise, olumsuz etkilere sebep olan Toksik Liderlik ile Tükenmişlik arasındaki ilişki ele alınmaktadır. Araştırmaya Denizli ilinde faaliyet gösteren üç tekstil firmasında çalışan 241 mavi yakalı çalışan dâhil edilmiştir. Toplanan veriler, SPSS ve Lisrel paket programlarıyla yapısal eşitlik modeline göre test edilmiştir. Toksik liderliğin doğrudan davranış tarzıyla ilgili olduğu değerlendirilen kötü davranan lider ve otokratik liderlik boyutu ile tükenmişlik algıları arasında ilişki bulunmuştur. Buna göre, çalışanların liderlerinin kötü davrandığını ve otokratik tarzda yönetim sergilediğini yüksek düzeyde algılamaları durumunda tükenmişlik düzeyleri de yükselmektedir. Kişilik özelliği olarak değerlendirilebilecek diğer toksik liderlik boyutları ile çalışanların tükenmişlik düzeyleri arasında ilişki bulunamamıştır.