in “Inclusive leadership and extra-role behaviours in higher education: does organizational learning mediate the relationship”, emphasized the need for innovative academic leadership practices to incorporate the strengths of mutual approaches into a more postmodern concept of relational and inclusive leadership.
Based on social exchange theory and relational leadership theory, this paper highlighted the relevance of institutional leadership.
The study proposed and analysed the impact of inclusive leadership on extra-role behaviours and innovative work behaviour of academic staff, with an intervening mechanism of organizational learning. The data from academic staff working in the Palestinian higher education institutions were analysed through the partial least squares (PLS-SEM) analysis technique.
The analysis further showed that inclusive leadership in this context positively affects organizational citizenship behaviour and organizational learning. The results indicated organizational learning mediated the relationship between inclusive behaviour and dependent variables and highlighted the role of leaders in developing inclusive higher education institutions.