DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP MEASURE AMONG MANAGERS IN THE SME ENTERPRISES

Abstract

      The objective of research was to develop a measuring instrument of innovative leadership among managers in the SME enterprises. There are two phases–the first one is synthesizing concept of four types of leaderships; charismatic leadership, transformational leadership, strategic leadership, and team leadership. It was used as a base and objective to obtain the definitions and factors of innovative leadership. Three SMEs experts were interviewed under the five factors in order to understand comprehensive contents and match with the context of SMEs. The second phase was gathering data by means of questionnaire which to be answered by 700 managers and went through confirmatory factor analysis to check consistency between factors from empirical data. Tools adopted in this research comprised of interview and 5-scale questionnaire, while statistics used are confirmatory factor analysis by using LISREL. The result indicated as follows:

1. The five factors of innovative are pursuing vision and keeping pace with change, promoting

teamwork, implementing quickly, communicating efficiently, and inspiring others.

1. The result of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the innovative leadership model

requiring the five factors to jointly measure latent variables was consistent with the empirical data (c²= 3887.47, df = 734, RMSEA = .078, SRMR = .041, CFI = .96, TLI = .96).