Abstract:
This study was about investigating the extent to which the influence of
organisational culture on ilmovation is mediated by leadership emotional
intelligence in Public Universities in Ghana. Specifically, the study sought to;
investigate the influence that organisational culture has on innovation, assess
the relationship between ilmovation and leadership emotional intelligence, and
finally, determine the mediating effect of leadership emotional intelligence on
the relationship between organisational culture and innovation in the Public
Universities in Ghana. The study was quantitative, with explanatory design.
With a population 00095 staff from the tlu·ee selected Public Universities from
three geographical zones in Ghana, 341 respondents were randomly sampled
based on Krejcie and Morgan (1970) Table. In total, out of the 341
questiOlmaires, 255 valid responses were obtained from the three selected
universities. In analysing the three main objectives of this study, partial least
squares structural equation modeling teclmiques, with the aid of the SMART
PLS version 3.0, were employed, while the descriptive statistics were processed
with the SPSS Version 24. The main findings of the study indicated that with
the exception of clan culture, the rest of organisational cultural dimensions such
as adhocracy culture, market culture and hierarchical culture had a positive
significant influence on innovation. Secondly, it was found that there was a
positive relationship between innovation and leadership emotional intelligence.
Finally, the study outcomes showed that leadership emotional intelligence
mediated the relationship between organisational culture and innovation,
particularly when there were adhocracy, market and hierarchical cultures. Based
on the findings of the study, it was concluded that Public Universities in Ghana,
in enhancing innovation, should pay more attention to their organisational
culture with special interest in their leaders who are endowed with high
emotional intelligence as it can be a key enabler or a major ban-ier against
ilmovation.
