The relationship between employee attitudes and innovation types: A managerial perspective Relacja między postawami pracownika a rodzajami innowacji: Z perspektywy zarządzania

Bulut C., Gencturk S., Aydin E., Nazli M., Kahraman S.

Polish Journal of Management Studies, vol.19, no.2, pp.89-100, 2019 (Scopus) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 19 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2019
  • Doi Number: 10.17512/pjms.2019.19.2.07
  • Journal Name: Polish Journal of Management Studies
  • Journal Indexes: Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.89-100
  • Keywords: Employee attitudes, Innovation types, Job involvement, Job satisfaction, Organizational commitment
  • Uşak University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This research aims at demonstrating how employee attitudes effect on innovation types that they adopt. Furthermore, this study examines the effects of most frequently used and widely accepted twelve constructs on workplace-related employee attitudes on three types of innovation. Results mainly reveal that based on the data gathered as a self-reported survey over a hundred employees from the manufacturing industry in Turkey, only half-dozen of the attitudes differently connected with the three types of innovation. Concretely, incremental and imitation types of innovation have significant relations with employees’ organizational related attitudes, and radical innovation has significant relations both with the job-related and organizational-related employee attitudes. The study sheds a light for innovation researchers and practitioners to make them consider which of the workplace related attitude of employees has a significant connection with which of the innovation type.