scholarly journals Contributions to Sustainability in SMEs: Human Resources, Sustainable Product Innovation Performance and the Mediating Role of Employee Creativity

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2008
Author(s):  
Lucía Muñoz-Pascual ◽  
Jesús Galende ◽  
Carla Curado
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Sustainable Product

The analysis of human resources and sustainable innovation through organizational variables is useful, albeit limited, for predicting complex interactions for sustainability development in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper seeks to overcome this limitation, proposing three models with variables at two levels, namely, for the development of creativity (individual level) and sustainable product innovation performance (organizational level) and sustainability development. Theoretical models are tested using the Structural Equations Model. It is posited that knowledge, motivation, and relationships (individual level) may be predictors of creativity. In addition, creativity is analyzed as a mediator between human resources and sustainable product innovation performance. In this way, it is easier for SMEs to detect on which aspects of HR they should place greater emphasis for sustainable product innovation performance (PIP), with the purpose of reducing the ones associated with the Covid-19 crisis and obtaining a sustainable world. Information was obtained through an online questionnaire involving a sample of 245 certified innovative Spanish SMEs. The results support major findings: (a) knowledge, (b) motivation, and (c) relationships have a positive impact on creativity; (d) the three models hold that creativity fully mediates human resources and sustainable product innovation performance. The paper contributes to the literature on the human resources and sustainable product innovation performance by adopting a multidisciplinary approach, as well as by analyzing variables on two levels, measuring the most internal aspects of employees (wishes, emotions, ideas, or feelings), and explaining the mediating role of employee creativity.

scholarly journals The Interaction of Organizational Capabilities and Individual Competences for Open Innovation in Small and Medium Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 148-175
Author(s):  
Ilma Pranciulytė-Bagdžiūnienė ◽  
Monika Petraitė
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
The Individual

Open innovation serves as a principal paradigm for success in diverse and dynamic business environments, as it gives the promise of a better-marked acceptance, a higher level of novelty, and managed innovation risks. However, SMEs face a critical challenge in developing open innovation capabilities and establishing new organizational processes that would empower employees to perform in open innovation regimes. We analyze the mediating role of organizational capabilities for employing and facilitating individual competences for innovation performance improvement as based on a survey of 266 SMEs. This study aimed to identify links between organizational capabilities and individual comp etences in AI for innovation performance in SMEs. The results of our study showed that organizational capabilities in AI at the level of organizations play a role as a mediator between competences for AI at the individual level and the progress of innovations. Considering that organizational skills in AI (organizational culture openness, organizational learning and trust, knowledge management systems, etc.) are strong organizational tools that help to increase the efficiency of AI and individual competences (to enhance employee creativity, enhance interaction with partners) as well as management competences (flexibility, ability to work with various professional communities, strategic thinking, etc.). This study partially refutes the assumptions that SMEs can only achieve innovative progress through individual competences in AI. Organizational capabilities in AI are also very important for AI implementation.

scholarly journals Role of Information Technology Capabilities on Product Innovation Performance: Mediating Role of Corporate Entrepreneurship

2018 ◽  
pp. 94-121
Author(s):  
Abdul Wahab .
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Despite the surplus studies demonstrating the significance of information technology capabilities in business growth with innovation, the knowledge of the approaches through which such benefits can be attained and their connections, expertise, and influence to other organizational and managerial aspects are yet limited. Purpose: To fill the research gap by studying the relationship between Information technology capabilities and business innovation within corporate entrepreneurial activities and also examining the mediating effect of Corporate Entrepreneurship, its sustainable approach at managerial level and contribution in market research towards emerging demands of IT. This study is also focusing on the skills, processes, and modifications to achieve such goals; also the implications for the managers dealing with product innovations in dynamic organizations. Design: Selected design for this study is descriptive in nature following a quantitative approach with stratified random sampling technique. The data is collected from 315 IT executive and managers from the population of 50 manufacturing firms in Karachi, Pakistan. Findings: Using data collected from the concerned population in the dynamic business environment, Researcher found the corporate entrepreneurship partially mediating the correlation between product innovation performance and information technology capabilities in an organization. These variables being studied are the observed elements of organizational progress and success; and their impacts on innovation, growth, and success are recognized and attested with the help of hypothesis testing in this research. Significance: This study is providing guide and support to organizations and policymakers incorporate entrepreneurial activities at different firms and managerial levels. Furthermore, this research study fills the existing gap by incorporating corporate entrepreneurship (CE) at the organizational level and contributes to the more robust development, understanding and involvement of IT to improve the overall business value.

scholarly journals Ambidextrous Knowledge and Learning Capability: The Magic Potion for Employee Creativity and Sustainable Innovation Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 3966
Author(s):  
Lucía Muñoz-Pascual ◽  
Jesús Galende
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
High Learning ◽  
Learning Capability ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
Sustainable Product

This paper studies the effect that ambidextrous knowledge, i.e., oriented knowledge within a firm towards the development of exploitation activities and oriented knowledge towards the development of exploration activities, has on employee creativity, research and development, and sustainable product innovation. We contend that both tacit and explicit knowledge affect employee creativity, research and development, and sustainable product innovation. We empirically tested our hypotheses by using multisource data collected from 245 Spanish firms across fourteen industries. Our structural equation models indicate that these two types of individual knowledge predict employee creativity, which in turn strengthens research and development projects, and sustainable product innovation performance. The results confirm that the relationships between knowledge, creativity, research and development, and sustainable product innovation performance are strong with a high learning capability. A multi-group structural analysis also reveals that positive relations between tacit and explicit knowledge, employee creativity, research and development, and sustainable product innovation performance are stronger within firms that have employees with high learning capability. We provide pertinent recommendations for managers. The efforts and investments made in knowledge support the development of new ideas, new research and development projects, and sustainable product innovation success; employee learning capability has a strong influence on knowledge, creativity, and sustainable product innovation.

scholarly journals Towards Employee Creativity in the Healthcare Sector: Investigating the Role of Polychronicity, Job Engagement and Functional Flexibility

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 837
Author(s):  
Junaid Waheed ◽  
Wen Jun ◽  
Zahid Yousaf ◽  
Magdalena Radulescu ◽  
Hadi Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Job Engagement ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Job Commitment ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Functional Flexibility ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Regression Techniques

Given the importance of individual level creativity, this paper investigates the influence of employee polychronicity on employee creativity among nurses in the healthcare sector. The current research also tests how job engagement acts as a mediator between employees’ polychronicity and creativity. Finally, thepaper analyzes the role of functional flexibility as a moderator that enhances the influence of polychronicity on employee creativity. The current paper presents empirical research, and cross-sectional data were gathered from 457 nurses (Subordinate Staff) and 127 doctors (Supervisors) working in 37DHQ (District Head Quarters) hospitals in Pakistan. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple-regression techniques were applied for analyzing the collected data. The findings proved that the nurses’ polychronic attitude increases their creativity. Findings revealed that job commitment plays a mediating role between polychronicity and employee creativity. The findings proved that functional flexibility enhances the link between polychronicity and creativity. This research has contributed to both theory and managerial practice about the interplay of polychronicity, creativity, job engagement, and functional flexibility among nurses. The management in practice should focus on employee attitude, i.e., polychronicity, for improving their creativeness.

Perceptions of responsible human resources management and credibility of the Public Administration: the mediating role of service quality and satisfaction

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Vázquez Burguete ◽  
Ana Lanero Carrizo ◽  
María Purificación García Miguélez
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mediating Role

This study extends previous literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in private firms and consumer behavior to set a model of citizen perceptions of responsible human resources management (HRM) in the public administration. Particularly, the main goal of the paper is to analyse the effect of perceived internal responsibility on credibility, by considering the mediating role of quality of service and satisfaction. A survey study was conducted with a total sample of 660 Spanish citizens. Structural equations modelling with PLS (Partial Least Squares) was used to test the overall fit of the model. In sum, results provided support for all the relations hypothesised. Findings and their implications are described.

scholarly journals Intra-Organizational Social Capital and Product Innovation: The Mediating Role of Realized Absorptive Capacity

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Ortiz ◽  
Mario J. Donate ◽  
Fátima Guadamillas
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Organizational Social Capital ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industries ◽  
Realized Absorptive Capacity

This paper examines the influence on product innovation of factors based on a company’s transformation and exploitation of knowledge gathered from its intra-organizational relationships. Specifically, this paper analyses the influence of intra-organizational social capital (SC) (i.e., comprised of structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions) on realized absorptive capacity (RACAP). Moreover, it analyses the mediating role of RACAP on the relationship between internal SC and product innovation. Based on a sample of companies from the Spanish biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries, two hypotheses were tested using a structural equations model and the partial least squares (PLS) technique. The results support both hypotheses, suggesting that the development of strong and tightly knit links based on a common understanding and trust among company members lead the firm to develop dynamic capabilities for transforming and exploiting knowledge acquired externally, which fosters innovation based on new product development. Research limitations, implications and future research are also discussed by the authors of the paper.

scholarly journals “The Power of a Firm’s Benevolent Act”: The Influence of Work Overload on Turnover Intention, the Mediating Role of Meaningfulness of Work and the Moderating Effect of CSR Activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3780
Author(s):  
Yun-Seok Hwang ◽  
Byung-Jik Kim
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Work Overload ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Corporate Social

Although previous works have examined how work overload affects the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of members in an organization, those studies have paid insufficient attention to the mediating and contingent factors in the work overload–turnover intention link from the perspective of positive psychology. Considering the theoretical and practical value and importance of positive psychology, studies that use it to investigate underlying processes are needed. Also, existing studies on work overload have focused on the moderating role of individual-level variables to reduce the negative effects of work overload, mostly ignoring the importance of organizational-level moderators. To resolve those issues, we hypothesize that the meaningfulness of an employee’s work mediates the relationship between work overload and turnover intention. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices could moderate the association between work overload and the meaningfulness of work. Using a three-wave data set gathered from 356 currently working employees in South Korea, we reveal not only that the meaningfulness of work mediates the work overload–turnover intention link, but also that CSR activities play a buffering role in the work overload–meaningfulness of work link. Our findings suggest that, from the perspective of positive psychology, the degree of meaningfulness of work (as a mediator) and CSR activities (as a moderator) function as intermediating mechanisms in the work overload–turnover intention link.

scholarly journals A Survey and Analysis of the Relationship between Human Resources Management and Organizational Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 2200-2204 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Hashemi ◽  
F. Dehghanian
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to evaluate the relationship between human resources management and organizational performance with emphasis on the mediating role of organizational innovation. The study methodology is descriptive-correlation and structural equations modeling. The study population is employees of the electricity distribution company of Tehran city. The reliability and validity of measures were evaluated using Cronbach’s alpha and confirmatory analysis and the results showed the acceptable reliability and validity of measures. For data analysis, Pearson Correlation coefficient and structural equations method with Lisrel software were used. The results showed that the effect of organizational innovation mediating variable was indirectly 0.17 meaning that if human resources management is increased as 1%, the organization performance with the mediating role of organizational innovation is increased as 16%. This study evaluates the relationship between human resources management and organizational performance with emphasis on the mediating role of organizational innovation.

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