Individual Agility and Intergenerational Learning on Innovative Work Behavior: The Role of Age Diversity Climate and Intergenerational Leadership

Innovative work behavior has broader meanings and implications than employee performance. Performance is a short-term achievement or a way to prove that employees can do a task or job. Innovative work behavior creates and implements new ideas beneficial for individuals and organizations. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the effect of individual agility and intergenerational learning on employees' innovative work behavior with the mediating role of age diversity climate and moderating role of intergenerational leadership. Samples taken were lecturers, assistant professor, and associate professor from private universities in Central Java, and the number of respondents was 263, using a structural equation model to analyze the data. The results indicate that individual agility and intergenerational learning positively relate to lecturers' innovative work behavior. Furthermore, age diversity climate mediates the relationship between individual agility and intergenerational learning on lecturers' innovative work behavior. Intergenerational leadership enhances the relationship between age diversity climate and lecturers' innovative work behavior. Innovative work behavior requires individual encouragement and learning created from within the employees.