INFLUENCE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ON INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE ON SME'S ORGANIZATION. THE EMPIRICAL STUDY THAT BASED ON MEDIATING ROLE OF ATTITUDE TOWARD PERFORMING WELL AND MODERATING ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

This study focuses on the impact of ethical leadership and technical innovation, specifically the mediating role ofa positive attitude in fostering good performance. This study, which was done in the SME sector of Malaysia inthe state of Selangor, used a convenience sampling technique for data collecting and reported that ethicalleadership, technological innovation, and attitude greatly influence performance. The purpose of this study is tolook into the direct and indirect effects of ethical leadership on employee innovative work behavior, as well as theintervening role of individual variables like job satisfaction and attitudes toward performance. This paper reportson the mediating role of attitude in regard to technological innovation and inventive performance, and it wasdiscovered that attitude toward performance had no significant effect on ethical leadership and creativeperformance. Empirical studies that studied the influence of various leadership factors such as style and ethics onworkers' inventive performance and uncovered the mechanism by which leadership exerts its impact onemployees' innovative work behavior were limited. This paper reports on the mediating role of attitude in regardto technological innovation and inventive performance, and it was discovered that attitude toward performancehad no significant effect on ethical leadership and creative performance. Empirical studies that studied theinfluence of various leadership factors such as style and ethics on workers' inventive performance and uncoveredthe mechanism by which leadership exerts its impact on employees' innovative work behavior were limited.Ethical leadership was observed to positively influence employees' inventive performance.