The Mediating Role of Innovation between Transglobal Leadership and Organizational Performance in Islamic Higher Education

Abstract

This study aims to examine the effect of transglobal leadership on organizational performance mediated by innovation. This research was conducted on 236 lecturers and academic staff of Islamic higher education. The data collected through the survey was applied to structural equation modeling (SEM) using AMOS. From the study, it was found that transglobal leadership significantly affects innovation and organizational performance, and innovation significantly affects organizational performance. Thus, this study contributes to the literature on the role of transglobal leadership and innovation in improving organizational performance. The originality of this study is to offer a transglobal leadership style that influences organizational performance in Islamic higher education that is mediated by innovation. Thus, there have been no studies investigating this causality.

Indonesian Islamic Students’ Fear of Demographic Changes: The Nexus of Arabic Education, Religiosity, and Political Preferences

“…This is since basic Arabic language has become a mandatory course in every Indonesia Islamic University in addition to a pair of other mandatory Islamic courses such as fiqh, hadith, muamalah, or Islamic histories as an effort by the universities to integrate Islamic teaching and conventional educational majors including Accounting, Business, Pharmacy, and several others. It is also one of the differentiating prerequisites compared to conventional colleges in this country (Junusi and Mubarok 2021). Meanwhile, the contribution Religions 2022, 13, 320 2 of 14 of language to the discourse on demographic identity is evident in South Korea, where English mastery is considered superior to the mother language (Lee 2004), as well as the use of English and the national language, Malay, by Malaysians in their conversation on cyberspace (Wang and Xu 2018).…”