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Are We Ready to Innovate? Work Climate‐Readiness to Innovate Relationship: The Case of Jordan
Author(s) -
Suliman Abubakr Mohyeldi Tahir
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8691.00190
Subject(s) - work (physics) , business , sample (material) , perception , marketing , work environment , psychology , work performance , business administration , engineering , mechanical engineering , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience
This paper aims at understanding the role of work climate in influencing employees’ innovation. The study consists of two core concepts: work climate and readiness to innovate. By surveying a sample of 1000 employees from 20 industrial companies in Jordan, it investigates the impact of work climate on employees’ readiness to innovate. The results reveal that employees’ perceptions of their work climate tend to play a significant role in their readiness to innovate, with implications for both practitioners and researchers. An interesting finding is that older employees showed higher climate satisfaction reports than did younger employees, and were found to be more innovative. In addition, male employees reported higher levels of readiness to innovate – as rated by themselves – than did their females counterparts.