Abstract
Organizations rely on fresh ideas to survive and succeed in this contemporary and cutthroat environment. The need for managers of today to seek out innovative methods has never been greater, and this research is spotlighting that need in another way. Therefore, this study determines the influence of sense of coherence and employee commitment on the employees' innovative bahaviour in academia. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design and used a multi-stage sampling technique to select the 486 academic staff. Three validated questionnaires were used for data collection, which was pilot tested through test-re-test. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested. Analysis of data was done using multiple regression analysis fixed at the 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that with all the predictor variables (sense of coherence and organizational commitment) in the regression model jointly influenced employees' innovative bahaviour (R = .588; R 2 = .346; Adj. R 2 = .341; F (2,484) = 10.560; p = .011). The most potent predictor of employees' innovative bahaviour among the predictor variables of the study is organizational commitment (β = .461; t = 8.751; p < .000) followed by sense of coherence (β= .410; t = 5.803; p <.000). The study concluded that sense of coherence and organizational commitment may serve as crucial catalysts for positive changes in the service delivery system, enhancing effectiveness, responding to demands of both work and home life, and ultimately impacting their efficiency and productivity