Individual Innovation Research Articles

The Effect of Work Engagement on Individual Innovation: An Empirical Study in the Kingdom of Bahrain

The Effect of Work Engagement on Individual Innovation: An Empirical Study in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Relationship Between Nursing Students Innovativeness Characteristics and Online Learning Systems Acceptance

Purpose: This study was aimed to determine the relationship between undergraduate nursing students’ individual innovativeness characteristics and technology acceptance during emergency distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted with 350 nursing students. Personal information form, individual innovativeness scale (IIS), and online learning systems acceptance scale (OLSAS) were used for data collection. The data were analyzed by independent samples t-test, One-way ANOVA, Duncan test, Pearson's correlation analysis. Results: Most of the nursing students were at a traditionalist and skeptical innovativeness characteristic level. Perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness sub-dimensions, and total OLSAS mean scores were 9.67 ± 3.21, 16.26 ± 6.92, and 25.92 ± 9.26, respectively. A statistically significant, weak positive correlation was found between the total IIS, opinion leadership, and risk-taking scores and the total OLSAS, OLSAS-PEU, and OLSAS-PU scores. Students with high OLSAS, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness scores expressed positive opinions toward the lesson in all dimensions, such as interest, adaptation, success, perceived benefit from the lesson, and motivation. Conclusion: It can be said that technology acceptance is important in nursing education and as the perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness increases, a positive effect is seen on outcomes, such as interest, adaptation, motivation, and success. When designing online learning systems to be used in nursing education, recommended taking into account innovativeness, the perceived usefulness, ease of use.

Impact to culinary chefs' individual innovativeness levels on service innovation performance

Today, the development of new services due to globalization and competition has a direct impact on hotel businesses. Successful service innovations depend on service innovation performance. At this point, the most important factor affecting service innovation performance is the level of individual innovativeness of employees. The aim of the study is to discover the impact of individual levels of innovation on service innovation performances of culinary chefs working in five-star hotel establishments in Istanbul province. Accordingly, between 01.2020 and 04.2020, a survey has been carried out with easy sampling method for culinary chefs working in hotel businesses. As a result of the research; it has been revealed that resistance to change and openness to change from individual innovativeness components has a significant impact on employee collaboration, process and resource creation behavior, innovative service behavior of employees and new service development from the sub-dimensions of service innovation performance. In addition, risk-taking from individual innovativeness components has a significant impact on employee innovative service behavior and new service development. It is very important for culinary chefs to support their individual innovativeness and reflect their innovative behavior to the service offered, in order to improve the service innovation performance of hotel businesses.

Prospective teachers' stem attitudes in relation to their innovativeness and lifelong learning levels

The aim of this research was to explore the correlation between prospective teachers' attitudes towards STEM education, their lifelong learning levels, and individual innovativeness. A relational screening model was used, and 190 prospective teachers participated in the study. The research found a positive correlation between STEM attitudes and lifelong learning levels, as well as a positive correlation between STEM attitudes and individual innovativeness levels. Additionally, the research explored whether there were differences in STEM attitudes, individual innovativeness, and lifelong learning levels based on gender and study department variables. Moreover, the research also found a positive significant correlation between the levels of individual innovativeness and lifelong learning. The results showed that the levels of lifelong learning and individual innovativeness are significant predictors of the STEM attitudes of the prospective teachers. Additionally, no significant difference was found between the STEM attitudes, individual innovativeness, and lifelong learning levels of prospective teachers based on their gender. However, a significant difference was found in favor of the prospective science teachers in terms of their lifelong learning and STEM attitudes, when compared to the pre-school and primary school prospective teachers, in terms of their study departments. But there was no difference in individual innovativeness levels between their study departments.

Individual-Level Factors are Significantly More Predictive of Employee Innovativeness Than Job-Specific or Organization-Level Factors: Results From a Quantitative Study of Health Professionals.

Individual innovativeness is particularly indispensable among health professionals. The healthcare environment is complex and its knowledge workers must continually adapt to change and be comfortable with ambiguity. The objective of this study was to determine the relative importance of individual, job-specific, and organizational factors on innovative output of health professionals. Employed Canadian Registered Dietitians (n = 237) completed an online survey incorporating relevant validated tools, including the 10-item Big Five Inventory and the Alberta Context Tool. Factors were classified by level and introduced in blocks to a multivariate linear regression model, with the outcome of self-reported innovative output. Factors included in the model explained 44% of variation in self-reported innovative output. Although all blocks contributed significantly to the model, minimal variation was explained by factors at the job-specific (4%) and organizational levels (4%). Factors at the individual level most predictive of innovative output were role innovation, the personality trait of conscientiousness and voluntary membership in a professional association. To encourage employee innovativeness, health administrators, and managers of health professionals should consider how best to incorporate screens for individual-level indicators of innovative output (eg, personality tests) in their institutional hiring and selection processes.

Investigation of the Relationship Between Mobile Learning Readiness and Individual Innovativeness in Nursing Students

Investigation of the Relationship Between Mobile Learning Readiness and Individual Innovativeness in Nursing Students

The Effect of Big Five Personality Traits on Leader Member Exchange and Organization Citizenship Behavior in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities

The Effect of Big Five Personality Traits on Leader Member Exchange and Organization Citizenship Behavior in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities

Organizational Climate, Innovation Orientation, and Innovative Work Behavior: The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety and Intrinsic Motivation

Nowadays, many high‐tech SMEs have gradually focused on innovation‐orientation and have adopted various measures to create an organizational climate, stimulate knowledge workers’ enthusiasm for innovation, and promote individual innovation behavior, but met with little success. Based on the stimulus organism response (SOR) model, the objective of this study is to explore the mediating factors that affect knowledge workers’ innovative work behavior, and construct a three‐level model of the external environment, psychological factors, and individual behavior. This study selected 575 valid samples from 24 high‐tech SMEs in Zhongguancun, which is a technology hub in Haidian District, Beijing, China. Through the convenience sampling method, This study analyze the data and perform structural equation modeling (SEM) using AMOS 23.0. The external environment (i.e., organizational climate, innovation orientation) and psychological factors (i.e., intrinsic motivation, psychological safety) have a significant positive impact on innovative work behavior. Psychological factors have the most significant impact on innovative work behavior. Besides, psychological factors also mediate the relationship between the external environment and innovative work behavior. The findings indicated that high‐tech SMEs need to formulate scientific innovation‐orientation when implementing strategies, and continue to shape a harmonious and equal organizational climate. Furthermore, high‐tech SMEs should encourage knowledge workers to speak the truth, express different voices, and stimulate work enthusiasm to improve psychological safety and intrinsic motivation, thereby enhancing knowledge workers’ innovative work behavior.

A Formal Model for the Business Innovation Case Description

The purpose of this paper is to formalize the plural business innovation cases to compare each other. In case method learning, class discussions are based on cases that summarize actual business processes. This paper presents a model to re-description formally business innovation cases written in natural language. The model we named Managerial Decision-making Description Model (MDDM). MDDM consists of less than ten kinds of symbolic components and a simple syntax, for ease of writing and reading. In MDDM we define the structure of a business as layered relationship between objectives and resources. Then MDDM illustrates business innovation as a transition in the objectives-resources relationship and expresses the role of decision making in that transition. By formally describing business innovation cases in this way, it is possible to visually compare the characteristics of individual innovation processes. The model also allows us to compare the understandings between a facilitator and learners for the same case in a case study classroom. This formal description can be applied to the outcomes of organizational simulations and business games as well as to actual business innovations. In this paper, we introduce MDDM and its examples of cases descriptions derived from an actual business case and an organizational simulation.

The training method of group-innovation ability for graduate students in China

Graduate education under the background of double first-class is one of the important contents of Chinese higher education research. The cultivation of innovative ability of postgraduates is an important aspect in postgraduate education. Different from the previous methods of cultivating individual innovation ability, a group innovation ability training method based on the Synectics Method was proposed, and a studio for undergraduates, masters and doctorates was established. Through specific case analysis, it was shown that the proposed group innovation training method is feasible and efficient.

ОСНОВНІ ФАКТОРИ ЗБАЛАНСУВАННЯ РОЗВИТКУ ОРГАНІЗАЦІЇ ПРИ ПЕРЕХОДІ ДО ПРОГРАМНО-ОРІЄНТОВАНОГО ПІДХОДУ

This study is aimed at determining the key variable factors in the development of management systems in corporations, the transition of which through minimum or maximum values leads to dangerous deformations of the organizational mechanism. Among the key contexts, the following are highlighted: poor coordination, "money leeches", wasteful depletion of human resources, hyper-strategization, striving for process focus and delaying deadlines, blurring of responsibility for the decision made, excessive centralization, suppression of the power of those in power, excessive routine. The research methodology is empirical, based on focus group discussions and document analysis. Typical contexts of distortions during the transition of the organization to the Program-oriented approach (PoA) have been studied in detail. In particular, more cumbersome procedures lead to the complexity of making and implementing decisions that were previously simple and quick. Therefore, the development of new projects is no longer seen as necessary against the background of the "favorite procedures" of the organization, and accordingly, deadlines are met with lower quality even on the last day. An organization with a programmatic approach should not avoid the issues of the usual project cycle, acceptable quality control, finding a balance between perfectionism and resources, satisfaction of the main customers and partners, and the interests of the "middle man" in the system, that is, along with global ones, attention should also be paid to well-practiced, proven tools that can automate flow processes and allow the implementation of individual innovations of a software nature. It is best to set a quota for innovation and even for a portion of the time spent by top management discussing new ideas. PoA is a system practiced today, from which it is hardly possible to turn away, and if it already creates additional and complex, complex superstructures in the procedures, then the obvious human-focused task of the manager will be the desire to apply the procedures in a way to ensure that work becomes pleasant again, but at the same time the implementation is quite effective. If the manager is more concerned with simplifying the life of his subordinates and reduces the workload to the permitted extent, limiting it to the necessary or speeding up unnecessary tasks, then the employees will stick to such a manager and feel comfortable in such an organization.

Determining the Relationship Between Pediatric Nurses’ Critical Thinking Tendencies and Individual Innovativeness Characteristics

Determining the Relationship Between Pediatric Nurses’ Critical Thinking Tendencies and Individual Innovativeness Characteristics

Features of modern innovative development and formation of innovative system

The article analyzes the features of the innovative development of national economies in the context of globalization, discusses the main directions of the influence of economic systems of higher orders and the transnationalization of the world economy on individual innovation systems.

Research of the Influence of the Innovations of the Business Models on the Economic Results of the Enterprises

An expanding amount of research and a growing number of scientific publications are devoted to the problems of business model innovations, given their increased theoretical and practical significance. However, this concept is not well developed. There are very few publications in Bulgaria dedicated to the theory of business models and in particular to their innovation. A study of the processes of innovation of business models in Bulgarian enterprises, including their activity and the actual results achieved by their implementation, has not yet been made. In view of this, the purpose of this article is to briefly present the results of a study of the effects of business model innovation, conducted in a sample of Bulgarian enterprises, as well as to clarify their impact on the economic results of enterprises. The results of the empirical study demonstrate the impact of the innovation capacity of enterprises on the level of economic results achieved through these innovations. The main hypotheses of the study are: 1. Firms that innovate their business models achieve higher economic results than the average level of results for the respective industries. 2. The positive impact of business model innovations on the economic results of enterprises is stronger than the impact of individual innovations of another kind. 3. The economic results of the conducted innovations of the business models are higher in the industries with high innovation capacity than in the industries with low capacity. 4. The economic results of the conducted innovations of the business models are higher in the big enterprises than in the small and medium enterprises with lower innovation capacity. The authors hope that this article would provoke a discussion on these and other similar issues related to this topic. The results would assist future research as well as business leaders in making management decisions in developing strategies. The paper is organized as follows: Section 1 is a introduction and a overview of relevant literature, Section 2 explains the methodology, Section 3 presents the results of the empirical study and a discussion of the results and Section 4 contains the conclusion.

The Effect of Individual Innovation and Emotional Intelligence on Positive Organizational Behavior

The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of individual innovation and emotional intelligence levels on organizational behavior of the participants working in the Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports. The study group of the research consists of 77 female (38.7%) and 122 male (61.3%) participants working in the Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports. As a data collection tool in the research; Individual Innovation, Emotional Intelligence and Positive Organizational Behavior Scales were used. The participants drew a high level of innovative profile; It can be stated that he has an above-average level of emotional intelligence and organizational behavior. According to the results of the research; A significant, positive and moderate relationship was found between individual innovation, emotional intelligence and organizational behavior. In addition; It can be said that 53% of organizational behavior is explained by individual innovation and emotional intelligence characteristics.

МАГИСТЕРСКИЕ РАБОТЫ И ДОКТОРСКИХ ДИССЕРТАЦИИ НА ТЕМЕ ОБ ИНДИВИДУАЛЬНЫХ ИННОВАЦИЯХ В СФЕРЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ

The aim of this study is to examine the postgraduate education theses on individual innovativeness in the field of education. Qualitative research method was preferred. The study group consists of 40 postgraduate education theses made between 2011-2021. Descriptive analysis was used. Findings of the research; Theses on individual innovativeness in the field of education were conducted between 2011 and 2021. The most theses on this subject was conducted in 2019 and the least thesis was conducted in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. It was observed that 3 of the theses were at the doctoral level and 37 of them were at the master's level. Three theses were conducted at Anadolu, Gazi, Bartın, Necmettin Erbakan and Yıldız Technical Universities. The most theses were conducted in educational sciences and social sciences institutes, the least thesis was conducted in health sciences and graduate education institutes. The most theseswere in the department of educational sciences, the least thesis was early childhood education, child development and education, lifelong learning, sports management sciences, educational administration and planning, Turkish and social sciences education, special education, physical education and sports teaching, distance education, educational technology departments. Quantitative method was preferred in 39 of the theses and mixed method in 1 of them. The most preferred method was random sampling method and the least preferred criterion, snowball, purposive, cluster and proportional element sampling method. Scale was used in 39 of the theses and semi-structured interview form was used in 1 of theses.

ANALISIS PENINGKATAN SHARING KNOWLEDGE BEHAVIOR PADA PERUSAHAAN MELALUI MANAJEMEN PENGETAHUAN UNTUK PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN INOVASI INDIVIDU

This study aims to analyze the increase in knowledge sharing behavior in companies through knowledge management to increase individual innovation abilities. This study uses a qualitative type of research with a case-study approach that focuses on individual units within the company. The study was conducted on two digital banks in Indonesia. The analysis was used to test the suitability between resources, the data analysis used the triangulation method and the data presentation was carried out using the descriptive method. Based on the results of research and analysis, it can be seen that bank company X and company bank Y have implemented KSB with formal and informal techniques. However, informal techniques have a direct positive impact on increasing the quality and innovation capacity of individuals, which in turn can make a positive contribution to the company's new services and products in accordance with market demands that are changing rapidly due to technological disruption.

Individual Innovativeness, Emotional Intelligence and Self-Efficacy Towards Online Learning Readiness

In Malaysia, the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) announced that all public and private universities need to conduct all classes through online learning to ensure the continuity of education. Online learning is a form of distance learning that takes place partially or entirely over the internet. Online learning can fulfil students’ academics by providing quality education, regardless of location and time, if internet access is available. Measuring students’ readiness in online learning should also be of great concern to universities and has yet to be investigated, particularly for Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) students. The student's readiness determines how his or her behaviour changes. In this study, the researcher intends to find out the level of individual innovativeness, emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and online learning readiness among students at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The research design is a descriptive correlational study, as well as the data collection method is a quantitative approach. This study comprised 356 postgraduate students from the Faculty of Educational Studies and participants were asked to fill up the questionnaires. Descriptive and inferential statistics are used to analyse the research data. Findings revealed that UPM students have a moderate level of individual innovativeness, emotional intelligence and online learning readiness, however, a high level in self-efficacy. This study has contributed to the new dimension in students’ online learning readiness especially in the education field and the institution that is related to it. More strategies may be developed to ensure students are able to learn online effectively by identifying their level of individual innovativeness, emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, and online learning readiness.

Investigation of Teachers' Level of Life Satisfaction and Perceptions of Individual Innovation in the COVID-19 Pandemic Process

Background and Aim: This study seeks to examine whether there is a difference between the level of relationship between teachers' individual innovativeness perceptions and their life satisfaction and whether there is a difference in terms of some demographic variables during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The research is a quantitative study and was carried out in relational screening model. The sample of the study consists of 335 teachers working in schools affiliated to the Kahramanmaras Central District National Education Directorates. The data of the research was analysed using the Jamovi 1.6.12 statistical software program. Results and Conclusion:: As a result of the research, it was seen that the majority of the teachers were in the questioning and pioneering groups based on the scores of the individual innovativeness scale,. Significant differences were found in the scores of the participants' individual innovativeness scale sub-dimensions in terms of gender, marital status, branch, and sports status. On the other hand, there were no significant differences in life satisfaction scale scores in terms of gender, marital status, and branch variables (p>0.05); It was found that there was a significant difference in terms of the variable of doing sports (p>0.05); In addition, no significant relationship was found between the sub-dimensions of resistance to change, opinion leadership, openness to experience, and risk-taking and life satisfaction. Keywords: COVID-19, Teacher, Individual innovation, Life satisfaction.

EVOLUTION OF INNOVATIVE MODELS DEVELOPMENT

The definition of the concept of innovations is specified, their classification is carried out according to various criteria, structured on product and process, and on the scale, both radical and orderly. The influence of innovations on quantitative and qualitative changes of systems is investigated. The main direction of innovation research far concerns new technological solutions such as embodied innovations. At the same time, the importance of non-embodied innovations is growing at the world's leading companies in terms of technical and organizational level. The distribution of innovations makes sense mainly in microeconomic analysis. On a macroeconomic scale, most innovations relate to product innovation. Product innovations may be impossible to implement without changing existing production methods, and on the other hand, technological innovations may force to change the product range. The most important difference between product and process innovations is that the former is certainly more sensitive to market factors than the latter. Innovations can also be divided by their scale. There are radical and orderly innovations. Individual radical innovations generally have a much greater effect than optimization innovations. Therefore, the former is able to cause drastic changes, including technical production parameters, the latter are a source of less improvement. The study found that the key element was not only the knowledge that the company has, but also the knowledge that can be obtained from the environment. Thus, the sixth generation of the innovative model, called the self-learning system, was discovered. In the model of self-learning, the internal innovation potential of the enterprise is created by such elements as systems, skills, employees, styles and strategy, which determine the effectiveness of obtaining new knowledge and information from the market environment. In the sixth-generation model, all elements of the innovation process interact symmetrically. Individual innovation models were used by enterprises in different economic periods. Each of the models contains some important key elements related to the process of creating and implementing innovations. Keywords: innovations, model, system, generation, enterprise, knowledge, company, discipline.