ABSTRACT

This research aims to determine the relationship between Self-leadership and Innovative Work Behavior as well as how effective is the Mastering Self-leadership training to increase Self-leadership and Innovative Work Behavior. The study used action research with two research designs which are cross sectional (n = 144) and before-and-after study (n = 9). Measuring instrument used is Innovative Work Behavior Questionnaire (Jassen, 2000) which then translated into Indonesian language by Etikariana and Muluk (2014) and The Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire (Marques-Quinteiro, Curral & Passos, 2012). The result showed that there is a significant positive correlation between Self-Leadership and Innovative Work Behavior (r = 0.44, R2 = 0.20 (p < 0.05). It means that an increase in the level of Self-leadership will result in the increase of Work Innovative Behavior, and the Self-leadership explained 20% variance of Work Innovative Behavior. Moreover, among the three dimensions of Self-leadership, the constructive thought strategies is the most related dimension to the Work Innovative Behavior (r = 0.41). Based on the result of the difference between pre-test and post-test, it concludes that the intervention of Mastering Self-Leadership training is effectively and recommended as an intervention to increase Self-leadership and Innovative Work Behavior.