International Journal of Organizational Leadership

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become increasingly relevant in most work environments and this tendency is expected to continue over time. Therefore, educational systems around the world have made efforts for the acquisition and use of technology. This study aims to identify representative ICT integration programs on education present in recent decades in Latin America, as part of the interpretation and adaptation of public policies to the context. Bibliographic techniques were used to analyze the trends that have been followed in the region in terms of educational management for the adoption of ICT. As a result, more than 70 articles from scientific journals, four databases and three government websites were analyzed. They evidence an awareness of the relevance of ICT for innovation, and the existence of strategic programs for the reduction of access and use gaps. However, it is also noted the existence a challenging context characterized by socioeconomic inequities. In general, the influence of public policy on the promotion of these programs is observed, as well as the need for a theoretical methodological support for the development of an integral management model, in which the technology component does not constitute a parallel item. Management of educational institutions is crucial to normalize experiences and provide references that can be integrated into environmental conditions.

The importance of innovative behavior for organizational effectiveness has been wildly accepted. Spite of the importance of organizational structure to promote the innovative behavior, little is known regarding the decentralized system in service industry. In addition, the role of supervisor support in such circumstances is highly significant; however, the link between decentralization, supervisory support and innovation is not particularly clear. Therefore, the current study aims to examine the impact of decentralization on employees’ innovative behavior and also to investigate the moderating role of supervisor support in this process. Data was collected from 323 employees from five star hotels in North Cyprus. Structural equation modelling was applied to evaluate the measurements and model’s fit. The study hypotheses were tested using LISREL 8.54. The results revealed that decentralized system has a positive impact on employees’ innovative behavior. Moreover, moderating role of supervisory support in helping employees to achieve organizational innovative goals was significant. The existence of decentralization opens new opportunities for organizations and increases the innovative behavior among employees. Employees who have degree of freedom for decision-making and risk-taking within an organization are more creative, and will take the initiative to seek new and efficient ways and approaches of doing their jobs.

The aim of the present study was to investigate how employees assess innovation and leadership and to know if there was a difference between individual and social creativity in these assessments. In a private firm within the creative industry, employees (N=153) assessed organizational innovativeness and leadership for innovation. The perceived organizational innovativeness scale (PORGI) and a new leadership for innovation scale (LIS) were used. Independent variables were self-report measurements of individual creativity and social creativity. Analysis indicates that the company is perceived as innovative but the leaders score low on leadership for innovation. Socially creative employees view their workplace as less innovative than individually creative people and is also more negative in the assessment of their leader’s ability to facilitate innovation. Notably, social creativity correlated negatively with leadership for innovation and perceived organizational innovativeness.

Today, the world is full of dramatic changes. Therefore,
the third millennium is known as the era of creativity, innovation, and
entrepreneurship. The pace of useful
innovations and inventions in various fields of scientific, cultural, social,
industrial, and technological is more rapid than at any time in human history. Hence, the current information age is called the
knowledge and ability era. The organizations for their survival require new
ideas as well as exquisite and fresh opinions. Therefore, in order to
organizations can survive and continue their life; in todays turbulent and
changeable world, the spirit of creativity and innovation should be blown at
them. The importance of creativity and innovation is to some extent that human
life and civilization are not simply conceivable without them. This paper aimed
at defining innovation to incorporate creativity and innovation in
organizations.