The effect of transformational leadership on organizational innovation through employee creativity and internal social capital in the pandemic time of covid-19

This study aims to solve the research gap that occurs in transformational leadership towards organizational innovation. Besides presenting research novelty, the research gap is also resolved by combining employee creativity and internal social capital variables. The approach used in this research is quantitative with a purposive sampling technique. This study involved 125 respondents in the context of a properties company in Indonesia. Using data analysis techniques Partial Least Square (PLS), this study shows that transformational leadership has no significant effect on organizational innovation. Transformational leadership has no significant effect on employee creativity, transformational leadership has no significant effect on internal social capital; employee creativity has a significant effect. Regarding organizational innovation, internal social capital has a significant influence on organizational innovation. In contrast, through employee creativity, transformational leadership does not have a significant effect on organizational innovation, and transformational leadership through employee creativity and internal social capital does not have a significant effect on organizational innovation.