Creative Climate and Learning Organization: Factors Contributing to Innovation within the Private Sector
Studies on innovation have suggested that organizational creative climate tends to play an important role and is a predictor for innovation. However, lately, the presence of a learning culture in organization tends to equally explain a considerable influencing effect on innovation too. This parti...
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2002
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9293/1/FPP_2002_18.pdf |
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| Summary: | Studies on innovation have suggested that organizational creative climate tends to
play an important role and is a predictor for innovation. However, lately, the presence of
a learning culture in organization tends to equally explain a considerable influencing
effect on innovation too. This particular study examined the influence of both those
variables 011 innovation and to determine which one of the two could be a better predictor
for innovation. The results indicated that both learning culture and creative climate have
significant contribution of 58.5% to the explanation of the observed variances in the
innovation construct. The learning organization culture separately was found to have a
significant stronger relationship with innovation (r = .733) than did the creative climate (r
= .473) which implied a larger contribution from the learning organization variable
towards innovation. Two learning organization dimensions contributed most to the
variances in innovation especially the dimensions of 'Embedded Systems' and 'Systems
Connection' which have significant high predictive powers on innovation (Beta = .397, p
=.000; Beta = .313, p = .000 respectively) occurring within the sampled organizations as compared to the ten creative climate factors and the rest of the five learning organization
dimensions. The study also found that both the creative climate and learning organization
factors jointly contributed higher with significance (p = .000) at 67.6% to the explanation
of the observed variances in innovation for the MNCs (R2 = .676, F = 14.427) than for
the local organizations at 60.2% (R2 = .602, F = 7.476).
This study involved a sample of eighteen private organizations across vanous
core businesses, manufacturing, finance and insurance, consulting, property developing,
engineering, telecommunication, and education services, either local organizations or
MNCs within the Federal territory of Kuala Lumpur. The size of the respondents is 259.
In addition, the findings showed that there were no significant differences in the
mean scores (p > .05) among the three organizational job levels namely the top
management, middle management and staff, in the members' perceptions on innovation,
creative climate and learning culture. The study also found no significant differences in
the mean scores (p > .05) among the small, medium, large and very large organizational
population sizes in the members' perceptions on innovation, creative climate and learning
culture. |
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