The Influence of Self Leadership on Innovative Behavior

A company is able to survive, then the company must try to find ideas, build creativity, make engineering, to give birth to new findings, so that it can be said that innovation is the source of life This study aims to examine the effect of self-leadership on innovative behavior. The sample used in this study was 140 respondents. The test was carried out using multiple linear regression analysis, the data was processed using the SPSS program version 19.00. The results showed that self-leadership had a positive effect on employees' innovative behavior with a significance value of 0,000. The more positive self-leadership, the higher the level of innovative behavior of employees. Employees' innovations are related to effective leadership. The challenge of the work of today's leaders is not only to be an effective leader, but also to create more leaders in the company so that they are able to direct themselves to innovate. Leaders in the company act as role models that inspire employees to do innovative behavior. This study also supports previous research that transformational leadership style influences innovative behavior in organizational employees with rapid changes in consumer needs. Variables of self-leadership in this company have an influence on innovative behavior that is equal to 65.8%. So the conclusion is that there is a significant positive influence between self-leadership and innovative employee behavior.