THE INTERACTIONS AMONG STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP, INNOVATIVE CLIMATE AND IDENTIFICATION WITH LEADER

Currently, without strategic managament, it is hard for companies to survive and compete with rivals. Keeping this in mind, recently companies have tended to invest more on innovation and give importance to innovative behavior. This can be achieved by demonstrating strategic leadership in organizations. The main purpose of this study is to reveal the interactions among strategic leadership, innovative climate and identification with leader. To reach this aim, a quantitative research was conducted on 138 participants consisting civil, mechanical, computer, electrical, industrial and petroleum engineers from different companies in Ankara. According to the results obtained from the correlation analysis, it has been indicated that, strategic leadership has a significant and positive relationship with both innovative climate and identification with leader. Furthermore, on the basis of the regression analysis implemented in this research, it is understood that strategic leadership has significant, moderate and positive effects on innovative climate and identification with leader