scholarly journals Analysis and ranging of the factors of formation and development of innovative behaviour in organizations

Author(s):  
T. V. Sabetova ◽  
M. V. Ponomarenko

The article considers t the problem of determination of the degree of influence of a number of factors on formation of innovative behavior of employees and their groups in organizations. According to the authors’ opinion, innovative activity of employees requires, on the one hand, their own abilities and motivation, and on the other hand, readiness of the organization and provision of necessary resources for employees both for creation and implementation of ideas and projects. The authors do not deny the influence of the national business culture on the features of innovative behavior and point out the need to take into account these features. However, they deny the existence of national features that obviously make innovation development of one country easier than others, and therefore consider the experience of different countries worthy of study, but at the same time its implementation is considered possible only after a critical rethinking for existing conditions. The authors point out that innovative behavior of employees is formed under the influence of factors that can be conditionally divided into those dependent and independent of management actions, the former being of particular interest due to the possibility of controlling them. Among them the following groups of factors are identified: (i) related to the peculiarities of management style; (ii) characteristics of the workplace and job responsibilities; (iii) factors related to interpersonal and intergroup relations, and (iv) organizational factors. The influence of the key factors of each group was analyzed and evaluated either from the standpoint of positive or negative impact on the formation of innovative behavior, or from the position of the strength of influence. Based on the experience of Chinese colleagues, a comparative ranking of the factors that determine the innovativeness of behavior was carried out, in terms of their significance. At the same time, the similarity of the factors determining the innovativeness of the behavior of employees in Chinese and Russian companies was revealed, but significant differences in the degree of such influence were detected. As a result, the authors’ named key success factors in the formation of innovative behavior of the staff: (i) support from the company’s management; (ii) availability of resources of all types; (iii) system of labour remuneration; (iv) composition and structure of the team, and (v) cooperation.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Archer ◽  
Cynthia Lokker ◽  
Maryam Ghasemaghaei ◽  
Deborah Diliberto

BACKGROUND Implementing eHealth in Low Resource Countries (LRCs) is challenged by limited resources and infrastructure, lack of focus on eHealth agendas, ethical and legal considerations, lack of common system interoperability standards, and shortages of trained workers. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study is to describe and study the current situation in eHealth adoption in a small number of LRCs from the perspectives of their professional eHealth users. METHODS We developed a structural equation model that will reflect the opinions of professional eHealth users who work on LRC healthcare frontlines. We recruited Country Coordinators in four LRCs: India, Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya to help recruit participants. Through an online survey that focused on barriers to eHealth implementation, we gathered information from 114 participants. We analyzed the information using the SMART PLS3 software to help determine relationships among the constructs in the model, including eHealth utilization. RESULTS Although all of the model constructs were important to participants, some did not play a role in eHealth Utilization. However, Technology Infrastructure tended to reduce Concerns and Uncertainties which in turn had a negative impact on eHealth Utilization. Implementation Effectiveness, the Countries where participants worked, and whether they worked for Privately or Publicly funded institutions had major positive effects on eHealth Utilization. CONCLUSIONS eHealth success factors can be categorized into five groups: Our study focused on frontline eHealth worker opinions concerning two of these groups: (1) technology and its support infrastructure and (2) user acceptance. We found significant disparities among the responses from participants in different countries and/or funded publicly or privately. We believe that these differences can be an advantage for those regions or countries not doing as well in eHealth adoption as the others, by sharing information and experience. Our findings could also be applied to studies of the other three categories of success factors: (3) short- and long-term funding; (4) organizational factors, and (5) political or legislative aspects. CLINICALTRIAL Not Applicable


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
László Soltész ◽  
László Kamondi ◽  
László Berényi

Project success is a multifactorial issue, including difficult to quantify, soft factors as well. Project management style, collaboration within the team, and the level of standardisation may have an essential influence on the deliverables, moreover, on corporate performance. A prescription answer is not achievable considering the individual characteristics of projects but finding best practices and critical factors help to improve the performance. This paper presents the results of a survey among product development project experts (n = 112) evaluating the relevance of some success factors and their practical experience in the field. The results show that keeping the project plan and managing long-term issues like lessons learned database or module database are the most critical factors of success. The analysis did not find patterns of the responses that confirms the need for unique management actions.


2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirjam Brussen ◽  
Karin Sanders

The relationship between reflection and innovative behavior of Dutch fire brigade leaders: considering the influence of self-efficacy, time for reflection and autonomy The relationship between reflection and innovative behavior of Dutch fire brigade leaders: considering the influence of self-efficacy, time for reflection and autonomy This study examines to what extent reflection on work by fire brigade leaders plays a role in the explanation of self-efficacy, autonomy and time for reflection, on the one hand, and innovative behaviour (idea creation and idea application), on the other hand. The research was conducted among Dutch fire brigade leaders during an annual fire conference (N = 109). The research showed that reflection of fire brigade leaders is positively related to discovering new ideas as well as to translating the new ideas into practice. Self-efficacy and time for reflection predict reflection as opposed to autonomy. The relationship between self-efficacy and idea creation and idea application was partly explained by reflection. Reflection had no mediating effect in the relationship between time for reflection and idea creation, as opposed to the relationship between time for reflection and idea application.


Author(s):  
Hassan Farsijani ◽  
Reza Sepahvand ◽  
Mohsen Arefnejad ◽  
Mohsen Shafiei Nikabadi

Decisions in today's competitive and turbulent environments without access to information can confuse managers. The information system, which is planning, design and deployment as efficient and effective way, can help to improve the organization and create competitive advantages. One of the success factors and effectiveness of information systems in organizations is the organizational factors. In this research, organizational factors such as top management support, resource allocation, decision-making structure, management style and alignment of goals and knowledge of IT management, that affects the success factors of information systems (System quality, user satisfaction, perceived usefulness and quality of information), were analyzed and prioritized by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in Industries and Mines Organization of Isfahan Province. After gathering information and analysis them by using the Expert Choice, it was found that among success factors of information systems, and user satisfaction is the most important factor and the most important factor affecting success of organizational information system is the top management support.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-112
Author(s):  
Septian Wahyudi

The company certainly wants to increase its sales and increase the number of its customers so that all efforts and methods are carried out, including in building consumer confidence, thus making these consumers become loyal customers or commonly referred to as customers. But on the one hand the trust built by the company actually has a negative impact, namely the emergence of distrust because the frequency of the company offers a variety of products that are sometimes not needed by consumers, this paper is made to answer these phenomena and problems in a concise manner.This research method is by analyzing criticism of several studies about trust that affect consumer loyalty which results in the absence of influence between trust in consumer loyalty.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10673
Author(s):  
Axel Schwerk ◽  
Marzena Wińska-Krysiak ◽  
Arkadiusz Przybysz ◽  
Ewa Zaraś-Januszkiewicz ◽  
Piotr Sikorski

Urban wasteland is of special interest to city planners. However, to integrate such areas into city space management with consideration of nature conservation aspects, a sound assessment of their ecological potential is necessary. The aim of this paper was to analyze whether carabid beetle assemblages of the wastelands are affected by soil parameters, particularly trace element contamination. Therefore, we studied the carabid fauna in relation to selected soil parameters on 56 sampling plots situated in 24 wastelands located in the city of Warsaw (Poland). The results have confirmed our assumptions that the number of species, as well as the number of individual carabid beetles, are negatively affected by an increasing amount of pollutants in the soil. Particularly, the trace elements Pb, Cu, and Cd showed a significantly negative impact. The results are of value when it comes to the use of urban wastelands in the context of sustainable city development. Future use of urban wastelands will be faced with trade-offs between the use for public interests (e.g., housing space) and ecological interests. Phytoremediation and entomoremediation may be included in decontamination measures. The results of studies, such as the one conducted by us, may help to select the respective wastelands for certain purposes.


Author(s):  
Davorin Cimermančič ◽  
Janez Kušar ◽  
Tomaž Berlec

AbstractChanging a traditional company into a lean one is a very complex and time-consuming process that needs to be addressed in an appropriate way, otherwise the project of introduction of leanness into a company may fail on the one hand and even have a negative impact on business operations of the company on the other. When introducing a change, a step-by-step procedure leading to a progress may be of great help. The paper outlines a general procedure of leanness, an important part of which is a lean agent. A portfolio analysis is also used as a measure of leanness or as an indicator of the desired direction. The applied working methods were mainly active workshops and interviews with employees. The procedure has been tested on an example of a Slovene company; first, the existing situation is outlined, then the leanness steps taken according to the procedure and the final result after the first transition of the procedure.


Author(s):  
A. Pogorletskii

Despite weaknesses the Swiss management model keeps demonstrating its competitive ability. In large part it is accounted for the fact that not the engineer-technocrat's psychology, but that of a peasant-manager in the nature of the Swiss makes them realists, and the direct democracy allows to consider the interests of all population groups (any Swiss is primarily a citizen of his municipality and a worker of his enterprise, and only after current issues are arranged he is a citizen of his country). “Small, but dignified” neutral Alpine country deserves inspecting of its unique experience of prosperity in a complicated world of global transformations, and specifically by a management science. The Swiss management style is not only interesting, it also helps to explain how to administer in order not only to survive in the age of globalization, but also to demonstrate a high competiveness.


Author(s):  
Paula Andrea Castillo-Sanmiguel ◽  
Laura Rocío Cortés-Sánchez ◽  
Jovanna Acero-Godoy

<p>Tomato plants (<em>Solanum lycopersicum</em>) are susceptible to the infection by diverse pathogens that cause devastating diseases such as vascular wilt, which causes great losses at the production level. The fungus <em>Fusarium oxysporum</em> f. sp. <em>lycopersici</em> (<em>Fol</em>) is one of the etiologic agents of this disease and its control lies in the use of synthetic chemicals which generate a negative impact in both health and the environment; thus, it is necessary to implement biological control as a healthier and more efficient alternative. The fungus <em>Trichoderma</em> spp. is a favorable option to be employed as a biocontroller against this pathogen thanks to its antagonist mechanisms, determined by metabolic and genetic characteristics. On the one hand, for <em>Fol</em> it is indispensable the activation of signaling routes such as MAPK Fmk1, MAPK Mpk1 y HOG, while <em>Trichoderma</em> spp. uses effectors involved in the interaction with the plant such as proteins, enzymes and secondary metabolites that also strengthen its immune response against infection, determined by both Pathogen Associated Molecular Patterns (PAMP) and effectors. Therefore, this article makes a review about the mentioned characteristics and suggests a greater application of tools and molecular markers for the management of this disease.</p>


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