THE ROLE OF WORKPLACE SOCIAL COURAGE IN DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIORS

Abstract

In today's world where development and change are experienced rapidly, employees need to provide the necessary support to their organizations by displaying innovative work behavior (IWB) in the information sector, where keeping up with the change has become even more important. It is aim to reveal the role of workplace social courage (WSC) in developing the IWB of IT sector employees and to determine the effects of the WSC of employees on IWB. In this context, data were collected from the first 100 IT sector employees. Data obtained from the information sector employees determined by the convenience sampling method, it was concluded that the level of WSC and IWB of the information sector employees is high. It is seen that WSC has a positive, and significant relationship with the IWB levels of the employees, and WSC positively affects the IWB of the employees. In the research, it was concluded that employees with high WSC in the IT sector exhibit more IWB. It was concluded that gender and professional experience, which are among demographic variables, do not differ in the WSC and IWB of IT sector employees. 
 Keywords: Innovative wor behavior, courage, workplace social courage, it industry.