The Effects of Organizational Factors and Skills Contributing to Innovative Behavior on Innovative Behavior of Employees : A Case Study of a Private Company in Polymer Manufacturing of Thailand
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The objectives of this research were: 1) To study organization-level factors that affected the innovative behavior of employees 2) To study the skills contributing to innovative behavior on innovative behavior; and 3) To study the influence of innovative behavior-enhancing skills as mediator variables on employees' innovative behavior. Data were collected from a sample of 311 people who were employees at the operational level of an organization in Polymer Manufacturing of Thailand. Questionnaires were used questionnaire with a reliability of 0.916 and analyzed by creating a Structural Equation Model (SEM) to test the relationship between organizational factors and skills contributing to innovative behavior on innovative behavior of employees and the influence of skills that enhanced innovative behavior as a mediator variable on the innovative behavior of employees.
The result showed that organizational factors and skills contributing to innovative behavior had a direct influence on the innovative behavior of employees, and skills contributing to innovative behavior had an influence as a mediator variable on the innovative behavior of employees.
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