Analysis of The Impact of Organizational Innovation Perception on Individual Innovation Behavior Mediated by Individual Leadership and Work Stress

This study aims to analyze the impact of organizational innovation perception on individual innovation behavior mediated by individual leadership and work stress. The method used in this study is a quantitative approach with a survey technique, involving 314 cadres of family companions at risk of stunting in Padang City as respondents. Data were collected through a questionnaire that measured the variables of individual innovation behavior, perception of organizational innovation, individual leadership, work stress. Data analysis was carried out using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique to test the relationship between variables. The results showed thatperception of organizational innovation has a positive influence on individual innovation behavior, perception of organizational innovation has a positive influence on individual leadership, perception of organizational innovation has no influence on work stress, individual leadership has a positive influence on Individual Innovation Behavior, work stress has no influence on individual innovation behavior.This study also found that individual leadership was proven to play a role as a mediating variable in the relationship between perceptions of organizational innovation and perceptions of individual innovation. While the work stress variable was not proven to mediate the relationship between perceptions of organizational innovation and perceptions of individual innovation.