The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions
Innovation has been identified as a crucial drive that determines the survival, growth and sustainability of many modern organizations. In today’s competitive environment, innovation can be critical in driving both individual and organizational successes. More importantly, individuals within the...
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| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/42720/1/The_Antecedents_of_Innovative_Working_Behavior_-_ICCI_2014.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/42720/ http://www.iium.edu.my/irkhs/events/2nd-international-conference-creativity-innovation-sustainable-development-icci-2014 |
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| Summary: | Innovation has been identified as a crucial drive that determines the
survival, growth and sustainability of many modern organizations. In
today’s competitive environment, innovation can be critical in driving
both individual and organizational successes. More importantly,
individuals within the organizations are the key player in the
implementation of innovativeness at work. Hence, this study investigates
the antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career
advancement. Specifically, this study will take a close look on how
communication efficacy, communication climate, mentoring, and
networking influence academicians’ innovative working behavior. These
communication factors are believed to provide opportunities for the
innovation and implementation of novel ideas that will aid employees in
achieving their career goals, and thus become a platform for their career
advancement in the organizations. The study adopted a quantitative
survey research design. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed
to 132 lecturers from three major Islamic universities in Malaysia. The
findings indicate that there are significant relationships found between all
four communication factors with innovative working behavior.
Specifically, this study found that innovativeness is strongly correlated
with communication efficacy, communication climate, networking, and
moderately correlated with mentoring. This study also found that
innovativeness is strongly correlated with career advancement.
Furthermore, regression analysis found that networking is the most
influential factor to predict innovative working behavior, followed by
efficacy and mentoring. |
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