The impact of adaptive leadership on innovative work behaviour in complex adaptive systems: The mediating effect of readiness for change and the moderating effect of organizational resilience perception

All organizations are one of the sub-group of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and it's thought that the main components of their survivals are their readiness for change and their resilience which can be built up by adaptive leaders' reinforcement of innovative work behaviours. Consequently, the aim of this study is trying to find out the possible impacts of all these components on innovative work behaviours in organizations and also to suggest a model between adaptive leadership, readiness for change, organizational resilience perception and innovative work behaviour. Based on this model; in CAS, the relationships between adaptive leadership and innovative work behaviour will be studied by looking into the mediating and moderating effects of readiness for change and organizational resilience perception respectively. In this current study, quantitative data was collected from employees by conducting 277 online and 141 face-to-face questionnaires from various private sector firms in Turkey. This study demonstrates evidence for the positive effect of adaptive leadership on readiness for change and positive effect of readiness for change on innovative work behaviour. The study also supports that readiness for change has a mediation effect between adaptive leadership and innovative work behaviour while organizational resilience perception moderates the relationship between readiness for change and innovative work behaviour.