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

In today's fast-paced technological landscape, organizations encounter unparalleled opportunities and challenges, necessitating continuous adaptation and ethical navigation. Creating a conducive organizational climate is pivotal for fostering motivation, driving innovation, and ultimately achieving sustainable competitive advantages. The 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, with data collection conducted via a survey method utilizing a questionnaires. The model was tested by employing structural equation modelling (SEM) technique on the sample collected. Findings indicated that organizational climate has significant positive relationship with innovative work behaviour and teaching motivation. Likewise, workload has significant and positive relationship with extrinsic and altruistic motivation. The study highlighted the significant mediating roles of both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, emphasizing their importance in fostering teachers' intention to engage in innovative work behavior. The study results support and add to the positive effects of organizational climate and teaching motivation in creating innovative work behaviour. The study suggests that promoting collaborative organizational climate and reasonable workload levels can enhance innovative work behaviour which can ultimately benefit both teachers and their students. This study filled a gap by examining the relationship between organizational climate and teachers' innovative work behavior across public and private sector universities in Pakistan. The research concludes that a favorable organizational climate influence on establishing the necessary circumstances to motivate university teachers to exhibit innovative work behavior. The current study will present data on innovative work behavior that will help to create educational reforms which will eventually benefits the citizens.