Title: Pathway analyses on spiritual leadership and religiosity toward innovative behaviour of church youth

Authors: Benny Hutahayan; John Chong; Lenny Chendralisan

Addresses: Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia ' Curtin University, WA 6845, Perth, Australia ' Curtin University, WA 6845, Perth, Australia

Abstract: This research aims to analyse and determine the pathways of spiritual leadership and religiosity and their associated mediators on church youth's innovative behaviour. A questionnaire survey was adopted to collect the primary data from youth in an Indonesian church. Subsequently, the data were analysed using the SEM-PLS approach to test the hypotheses. The results show a new phenomenon that spiritual leadership and religiosity as crucial variables cannot directly affect church youth's innovative behaviour significantly but require going through the mediator of creative role identity. In their pathway analyses, religiosity has been perceived as more important than spiritual leadership. The research contributes and provides insightful references for church youth's leadership. It also can be referred to by other countries or youth leadership in general.

Keywords: spiritual leadership; religiosity; uncertainty avoidance; creative role identity; church youth innovative behaviour.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2024.135208

International Journal of Management Practice, 2024 Vol.17 No.1, pp.113 - 128

Received: 17 May 2022
Accepted: 01 Nov 2022
Published online: 02 Dec 2023 *