How Organizational Climate Mediates Employee Innovative Work Behavior among Food Manufacturing Industries in COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications to Business Economics and Management
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25115/eea.v39i12.6031Keywords:
organizational climate, employee innovative work behaviour, food manufacturing industries, innovationAbstract
In this context, the study explored the relationship between organizational climate and employee innovative work behaviour among food manufacturing industries in Malaysia. The study is a descriptive correlational survey research design where data is sourced out from a total of randomly sampled 260 employees. Results revealed that a favourable organizational climate on innovation, proactivity, and risk-taking is prevailing among the companies. A very high level of innovative work behaviour is emanating among the employees on idea exploration, generation, championing, and implementation. Test of differences showed that employee gender, position, unit, and years of service spelt significant differences in the perception of the employees on organizational climate and innovative work behaviour. A meaningful relationship surfaced between organizational climate and employee innovative work behaviour, suggesting that for food manufacturing industries to sustain innovative and competitive advantages, there is a need to promote a nurturing and encouraging entrepreneurial organizational climate. Finally, a congruency among the domains of organizational climate and employee innovative work behaviour emerged. It suggests that when higher positive organizational climate surfaces, the more likely the employee's manifest innovation work behaviour. This study addressed the gap by providing organizational climate and employee innovative work behaviour among food manufacturing industries in Malaysia.
Downloads
References
Adams, K. (2006). The sources of innovation and creativity. A paper commissioned by the National Center on Education and the Economy for the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. Washington DC: National Centre on Education and the Economy.
Baer, M., & Frese, M. (2003). Innovation is not enough: Climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior: The International Journal of Industrial, Occupational and Organizational Psychology and Behavior, 24(1), 45-68.
Bagheri, A., & Akbari, M. (2018). The impact of entrepreneurial leadership on nurses’ innovation behavior. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 50(1), 28-35.
Banerjee, P., Gupta, R., & Bates, R. (2017). Influence of organizational learning culture on knowledge worker’s motivation to transfer training: Testing moderating effects of learning transfer climate. Current Psychology, 36(3), 606-617.
Bani-Melhem, S., Zeffane, R., & Albaity, M. (2018). Determinants of employees’ innovative behavior. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 30(3), 1601-1620.
Basadur, M. (2004). Leading others to think innovatively together: Creative leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 15(1), 103-121.
Berthoin Antal, A., Debucquet, G., & Frémeaux, S. (2017). When top management leadership matters: Insights from artistic interventions. Journal of Management Inquiry, 1056492617726393.
Černe, M., Kaše, R., & Škerlavaj, M. (2016). This idea rocks! Idea championing in teams. In Capitalizing on Creativity at Work. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Choudhury, G. (2012). The dynamics of organizational climate: An exploration. Management Insight, 7(2).
Covin, J. G., & Slevin, D. P. (1989). Strategic management of small firms in hostile and benign environments. Strategic Management Journal, 10(1), 75-87.
de Jong, J., & den Hartog, D. (2010). Measuring innovative work behaviour. Creativity and Innovation Management, 19(1), 23-36.
De Silva, M., Howells, J., & Meyer, M. (2018). Innovation intermediaries and collaboration: Knowledge–based practices and internal value creation. Research Policy, 47(1), 70-87.
Dengler, C., Schönmann, A., Lohmann, B., & Reinhart, G. (2017). Cycle-oriented evaluation of production technologies: Extending the model of the production cycle. Procedia CIRP, 61, 493-498.
Dewett, T. (2006). Exploring the role of risk in employee creativity. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 40(1), 27-45.
Dong, Y., Bartol, K. M., Zhang, Z. X., & Li, C. (2017). Enhancing employee creativity via individual skill development and team knowledge sharing: Influences of dual‐focused transformational leadership. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(3), 439-458.
Fay, D., Lührmann, H., & Kohl, C. (2004). Proactive climate in a post-reorganization setting: When staff compensate managers’ weakness. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 13(2), 241-267.
García-Granero, A., Llopis, Ó., Fernández-Mesa, A., & Alegre, J. (2015). Unraveling the link between managerial risk-taking and innovation: The mediating role of a risk-taking climate. Journal of Business Research, 68(5), 1094-1104.
Getz, I., & Robinson, A. G. (2003). Innovate or die: Is that a fact? Creativity and Innovation Management, 12(3), 130-136.
Ghosh, K. (2015). Developing organizational creativity and innovation: Toward a model of self-leadership, employee creativity, creativity climate and workplace innovative orientation. Management Research Review, 38(11), 1126-1148.
Gitelman, L. D., Gavrilova, T. B., Kozhevnikov, M. V., & Starikov, E. M. (2019). Ensuring resilience and agility of complex organizational-technical systems. Management and Applications of Complex Systems, 45.
Hammond, M. M., Neff, N. L., Farr, J. L., Schwall, A. R., & Zhao, X. (2011). Predictors of individual-level innovation at work: A meta-analysis. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 5(1), 90.
Hassan, H., Asif, J., Waqar, N., Khalid, S., & Abbas, S. (2018). The impact of knowledge sharing on innovative work behavior. Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 6(5), 22-25.
Hong, Y., Liao, H., Raub, S., & Han, J. H. (2016). What it takes to get proactive: An integrative multilevel model of the antecedents of personal initiative. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(5), 687.
Howell, J. M., Shea, C. M., & Higgins, C. A. (2005) Champions of product innovations: Defining, developing, and validating a measure of champion behavior. Journal of Business Venturing, 20, 641–61.
Hsu, M. L., & Chen, F. H. (2017). The cross‐level mediating effect of psychological capital on the organizational innovation climate–employee innovative behavior relationship. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 51(2), 128-139.
Hu, A. G., Zhang, P., & Zhao, L. (2017). China as number one? Evidence from China’s most recent patenting surge. Journal of Development Economics, 124, 107-119.
Hughes, D. J., Lee, A., Tian, A. W., Newman, A., & Legood, A. (2018). Leadership, creativity, and innovation: A critical review and practical recommendations. The Leadership Quarterly, 29(5), 549-569.
Hughes, M., & Morgan, R. E. (2007). Deconstructing the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and business performance at the embryonic stage of firm growth. Industrial Marketing Management, 36(5), 651-661.
Iddris, F., Awuah, G. B., & Gebrekidans, D. A. (2016). Achieving supply chain agility through innovation capability building. International Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience, 2(2), 114-143.
Imran, R., Saeed, T., Anis-Ul-Haq, M., & Fatima, A. (2010). Organizational climate as a predictor of innovative work behavior. African Journal of Business Management, 4(15), 3337-3343.
Jaiswal, N. K., & Dhar, R. L. (2015). Transformational leadership, innovation climate, creative self-efficacy and employee creativity: A multilevel study. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 51, 30-41.
Janssen, O. (2000). Job demands, perceptions of effort‐reward fairness and innovative work behaviour. Journal Of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 73(3), 287-302.
Jeanes, E. L. (2006). ‘Resisting creativity, creating the new’. A Deleuzian perspective on creativity. Creativity and Innovation Management, 15(2), 127-134.
Jin, G., Zhu, Y., & Xu, Y. (2017). Mystery behind Chinese liquor fermentation. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 63, 18-28.
Joe, T., Bessant, J., & Pavitt, K. (2005). Managing innovation: Integrating technological, market and organizational change. John Wiley & Sons.
Ju, B. (2012). An evaluation of critical factors influencing product innovation in the food industry - A case study of China Mengjiu Dairy Company. International Journal of Business and Management, 7(3), 104.
Kang, J. H., Matusik, J. G., Kim, T. Y., & Phillips, J. M. (2016). Interactive effects of multiple organizational climates on employee innovative behavior in entrepreneurial firms: A cross-level investigation. Journal of Business Venturing, 31(6), 628-642.
Kang, J. H., Solomon, G. T., & Choi, D. Y. (2015). CEOs’ leadership styles and managers’ innovative behaviour: Investigation of intervening effects in an entrepreneurial context. Journal of Management Studies, 52(4), 531-554.
Kang, S., Hao, X., Du, T., Tong, L., Su, X., Lu, H., ... & Ding, R. (2017). Improving agricultural water productivity to ensure food security in China under changing environment: From research to practice. Agricultural Water Management, 179, 5-17.
Khalili, A. (2016). Linking transformational leadership, creativity, innovation, and innovation-supportive climate. Management Decision, 54(9), 2277-2293.
Kleysen, R. F., & Street, C. T. (2001). Toward a multi-dimensional measure of individual innovative behavior. Journal of intellectual Capital, 2(3), 284-296.
Li, C., Zhao, H., & Begley, T. M. (2015). Transformational leadership dimensions and employee creativity in China: A cross-level analysis. Journal of Business Research, 68(6), 1149-1156.
Li, M., Liu, Y., Liu, L., & Wang, Z. (2017). Proactive personality and innovative work behavior: The mediating effects of affective states and creative self-efficacy in teachers. Current Psychology, 36(4), 697-706.
Li, V., Mitchell, R., & Boyle, B. (2016). The divergent effects of transformational leadership on individual and team innovation. Group & Organization Management, 41(1), 66-97.
Li, W., Bhutto, T. A., Nasiri, A. R., Shaikh, H. A., & Samo, F. A. (2018). Organizational innovation: The role of leadership and organizational culture. International Journal of Public Leadership, 14(1), 33-47.
Lin, H. C., & Lin, P. C. (2019). The interplay between CEO-TMT exchange level and differentiation: Implications for firm competitive behaviors and performance. Journal of Business Research, 95, 171-181.
Liu, F., Chow, I. H. S., Zhang, J. C., & Huang, M. (2019). Organizational innovation climate and individual innovative behavior: Exploring the moderating effects of psychological ownership and psychological empowerment. Review of Managerial Science, 13(4), 771-789.
Liu, Z., Ge, L., & Peng, W. (2016). How organizational tenure affects innovative behavior? The role of culture difference and status determinants. Nankai Business Review International, 7(1), 99-126.
Lopez, K. R. B., Gaticales, N. P., Provido, A. V. C., Santelices, S. M. B., & Arcinas, M. M. (2021). Social Contagion of Astrology in the Social Media amid COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research, 2(4), 349-363.
Lu, Y., Jenkins, A., Ferrier, R. C., Bailey, M., Gordon, I. J., Song, S., ... & Zhang, Z. (2015). Addressing China’s grand challenge of achieving food security while ensuring environmental sustainability. Science Advances, 1(1), e1400039.
MacCormick, J. S., & Parker, S. K. (2010). A multiple climates approach to understanding business unit effectiveness. Human Relations, 63, 1771-1806.
Madjar, N., Greenberg, E., & Chen, Z. (2011). Factors for radical creativity, incremental creativity, and routine, noncreative performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(4), 730.
Magulod Jr, G. C. (2017). Factors of school effectiveness and performance of selected public and private elementary schools: implications on educational planning in the Philippines. Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 5(1), 73-83.
Malerba, F. (2007). Innovation and the evolution of industries. In Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation (pp. 7-27). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Martín-de Castro, G. (2015). Knowledge management and innovation in knowledge-based and high-tech industrial markets: The role of openness and absorptive capacity. Industrial Marketing Management, 47, 143-146.
McAdam, R., & McClelland, J. (2002). Individual and team-based idea generation within innovation management: Organisational and research agendas. European Journal of Innovation Management, 5(2), 86-97.
Mehmood, M. S., Jian, Z., Waheed, A., Younas, A., & Khan, S. Z. (2019). Impact of Entrepreneurial Leadership on Employee’s Innovative Behavior: Mediating role of Psychological Empowerment. In Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Management Engineering, Software Engineering and Service Sciences (pp. 223-229). ACM.
Miao, J., Liang, Y., Chen, L., Wang, W., Wang, J., Li, B., ... & Xu, Z. (2017). Formation and development of Staphylococcus biofilm: with focus on food safety. Journal of Food Safety, 37(4), e12358.
Ming, T., Yang, Z., & Zhen, T. (2016). Research on the relationship between innovation and growth of food manufactures in developing country: Evidence from the listed company in China. Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology, 10(6), 460-464.
Montani, F., Courcy, F., & Vandenberghe, C. (2017). Innovating under stress: The role of commitment and leader-member exchange. Journal of Business Research, 77, 1-13.
Naranjo-Valencia, J. C., Jiménez-Jiménez, D., & Sanz-Valle, R. (2016). Studying the links between organizational culture, innovation, and performance in Spanish companies. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 48(1), 30-41.
Natalicchio, A., Ardito, L., Savino, T., & Albino, V. (2017). Managing knowledge assets for open innovation: A systematic literature review. Journal of Knowledge Management, 21(6), 1362-1383.
Nencini, A., Romaioli, D., & Meneghini, A. M. (2016). Volunteer motivation and organizational climate: Factors that promote satisfaction and sustained volunteerism in NPOs. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 27(2), 618-639.
Newman, A., Herman, H. M., Schwarz, G., & Nielsen, I. (2018). The effects of employees’ creative self-efficacy on innovative behavior: The role of entrepreneurial leadership. Journal of Business Research, 89, 1-9.
Ng, T. W., & Feldman, D. C. (2013). A meta‐analysis of the relationships of age and tenure with innovation‐related behaviour. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 86(4), 585-616.
Norton, T. A., Zacher, H., & Ashkanasy, N. M. (2015). Pro-environmental organizational culture and climate. In J. L. Robertson, & J. Barling (Eds.), The psychology of green organizations (pp. 322–348). Oxford University Press.
Orth, M., & Volmer, J. (2017). Daily within-person effects of job autonomy and work engagement on innovative behaviour: The cross-level moderating role of creative self-efficacy. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26(4), 601-612.
Pati, A. (2019). The influence of leadership and organizational culture on employee work satisfaction in Bolmut Regency. Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Education, 2(2), 106-112.
Patterson, M. G., West, M. A., Shackleton, V. J., Dawson, J. F., Lawthom, R., Maitlis, S., ... & Wallace, A. M. (2005). Validating the organizational climate measure: Links to managerial practices, productivity and innovation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4), 379-408.
Perry-Smith, J. E., & Mannucci, P. V. (2017). From creativity to innovation: The social network drivers of the four phases of the idea journey. Academy of Management Review, 42(1), 53-79.
Petrou, P., Bakker, A. B., & Bezemer, K. (2019). Creativity under task conflict: The role of proactively increasing job resources. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(2), 305-329.
Puspitawati, N. M. D., & Atmaja, N. P. C. D. (2019). The role of organizational commitment mediating organizational climate with turnover intention. International Journal of Applied Business and International Management, 4(3), 23-32.
Rong, Z., Wu, X., & Boeing, P. (2017). The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms. Research Policy, 46(9), 1533-1551.
Rowley, J., Baregheh, A., & Sambrook, S. (2011). Towards an innovation-type mapping tool. Management Decision, 49(1), 73-86.
Saraswati, N. P. A. S., & Putra, G. B. B. (2020). Competency and creativity as a relationship that interpretes between the perception of an organizational support on performance of the craftsman of Ikat Endek in Klungkung Bali. Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Education, 3(1), 1-11.
Sauid, M. K., Kamarudzaman, K., Ebrahim, Z. B., Mustakim, N. A., & Mokhtar, N. (2018). The relationship between self-leadership skills and employee innovative work behavior (IWB). Gading Journal for the Social Sciences, 21(02), 19-26.
Scott, S. G., & Bruce, R. A. (1994). Determinants of innovative behavior: A path model of individual innovation in the workplace. Academy of Management Journal, 37(3), 580-607.
Sethibe, T., & Steyn, R. (2016). Organizational climate, innovation and performance: A systematic review. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, 2(2), 161-174.
Shahzad, F., Xiu, G., & Shahbaz, M. (2017). Organizational culture and innovation performance in Pakistan’s software industry. Technology in Society, 51, 66-73.
Shanker, R., Bhanugopan, R., van der Heijden, B. I. J. M., & Farrell, M. (2017). Organizational climate for innovation and organizational performance: The mediating effect of innovative work behavior. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 100, 67–77.
Spitzmuller, M., Sin, H. P., Howe, M., & Fatimah, S. (2015). Investigating the uniqueness and usefulness of proactive personality in organizational research: A meta-analytic review. Human Performance, 28(4), 351-379.
Sternberg, R. J., & Lubart, T. I. (1991). An investment theory of creativity and its development. Human Development, 34(1), 1-31.
Vong, L. T. N., Ngan, H. F. B., & Lo, P. C. P. (2018). Does organizational climate moderate the relationship between job stress and intent to stay? Evidence from Macau SAR, China. Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management, 9(1), 2-20.
Wallace, J. C., Edwards, B. D., Paul, J., Burke, M., Christian, M., & Eissa, G. (2016). Change the referent? A meta-analytic investigation of direct and referent-shift consensus models for organizational climate. Journal of Management, 42(4), 838-861.
Wang, H., & Chang, Y. (2017). The influence of organizational creative climate and work motivation on employee’s creative behavior. Journal of Management, 3, 6.
Wang, X. H. F., Kim, T. Y., & Lee, D. R. (2016). Cognitive diversity and team creativity: Effects of team intrinsic motivation and transformational leadership. Journal of Business Research, 69(9), 3231-3239.
Wei, S. J., Xie, Z., & Zhang, X. (2017). From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China”: Necessity, prospect, and challenges. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31(1), 49-70.
Woodman, R. W., Sawyer, J. E., & Griffin, R. W. (1993). Toward a theory of organizational creativity. Academy of Management Review, 18(2), 293-321.
Woods, S. A., Mustafa, M. J., Anderson, N., & Sayer, B. (2018). Innovative work behavior and personality traits: Examining the moderating effects of organizational tenure. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 33(1), 29-42.
Wu, C. M., & Chen, T. J. (2018). Collective psychological capital: Linking shared leadership, organizational commitment, and creativity. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 74, 75-84.
Xie, Z., & Zhang, X. (2015). The patterns of patents in China. China Economic Journal, 8(2), 122-142.
