The perception of innovative organisational culture and its influence on employee innovative work behaviour

摘要

The role of innovation within an organization is undeniably important. An organizational culture that embraces innovation is one that will encourage employees to behave innovatively. This investigation is set out to explore the determinants of innovation within an organization that will prompt employees to behave innovatively. The investigation suggests that when employees perceive a positive innovative culture, they are likely to show innovative behavior in specific stages of innovative work behavior. These stages are: opportunity exploration, idea generation, idea championing and idea realization. The investigation identified ten determinants, namely: autonomy, external contacts, communication, collaboration, risk taking, decentralized structure, reward, resource, participative leadership and strategy. We proposed ten hypotheses to test the impact of these ten determinants on employee innovative behavior. Based on the findings, some of the determinants are found to have a high support to innovative behavior and these vary according to the specific innovation behavior stages.