Organizational Climate and Innovative Work Behaviour: The Mediating Role of Workload and Teaching Motivation

Present study aims to investigate how workload and teaching motivation influence teachers in context of the relationship between the organizational climate, its dimensions, and the innovative work behavior exhibited by teachers in a university setting.The research sample comprised of 313 teachers from both public and private universities.Findings indicated that organizational climate has significant positive relationship with innovative work behaviour, and teaching motivation (overall), including extrinsic, intrinsic and subject matter motivation as well.Additionally, universities' organizational climate is also directly related with all types of teaching motivation.Further, workload has significant and positive relationship with extrinsic and altruistic motivation.In a comparison between public and private universities data, the private universities are significantly higher on organizational climate, teaching motivation (overall), extrinsic, intrinsic and subject matter motivations, and innovative behaviour as well.The study also highlighted the significant mediating roles of both the extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, emphasizing their importance in fostering teachers' intention to engage in innovative work behavior.The study results support the highly positive effects of organizational climate and teaching motivation in creating innovative work behaviour.The study suggests that promoting healthy organizational climate and moderate workload may enhance university teachers' motivation and consequently, the innovative work behaviour.The study findings may ultimately benefit the university teachers, their students and the organizations in particular, and the higher educational system and society in general.