Research Article

The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation

Volume: 5 Number: 2 October 31, 2018
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The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation

Abstract

The requests and needs of consumers change rapidly in parallel to rapidly changing and improving global world. As a result, organizations have to strive with this rapid change and improvement, and even start the change. One of the newest and the main weapons that an organization could have to survive and stand against national and international threats is innovation. Organizations should place importance on such a strong competition tool and search for ways to make sustainable innovation happen. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to demonstrate that organizational learning increases innovation through obtaining, sharing, evaluating, using and storing information. Additionally, the purpose is to demonstrate that employee empowerment plays a mediator role in the effect of organizational learning on innovation. In this research study conducted with 140 employees of a factory that exports to more than 50 countries, structural equation modelling and LISREL software were used. The analyses showed that the vision and open mindedness dimensions of organizational learning affects innovation types (process, strategy, market, product) significantly and positively. Additionally, employee empowerment affects only strategy and product innovation significantly and positively. On the other hand, employee empowerment plays a mediator role in all the relationships between vision and open mindedness, and strategy and product innovation.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 31, 2018

Submission Date

February 27, 2018

Acceptance Date

June 28, 2018

Published in Issue

Year 2018 Volume: 5 Number: 2

APA
Yıldırım, F. (2018). The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation. Istanbul Gelisim University Journal of Social Sciences, 5(2), 18-38. https://doi.org/10.17336/igusbd.398990
AMA
1.Yıldırım F. The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation. IGUJSS. 2018;5(2):18-38. doi:10.17336/igusbd.398990
Chicago
Yıldırım, Fatih. 2018. “The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation”. Istanbul Gelisim University Journal of Social Sciences 5 (2): 18-38. https://doi.org/10.17336/igusbd.398990.
EndNote
Yıldırım F (October 1, 2018) The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation. Istanbul Gelisim University Journal of Social Sciences 5 2 18–38.
IEEE
[1]F. Yıldırım, “The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation”, IGUJSS, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 18–38, Oct. 2018, doi: 10.17336/igusbd.398990.
ISNAD
Yıldırım, Fatih. “The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation”. Istanbul Gelisim University Journal of Social Sciences 5/2 (October 1, 2018): 18-38. https://doi.org/10.17336/igusbd.398990.
JAMA
1.Yıldırım F. The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation. IGUJSS. 2018;5:18–38.
MLA
Yıldırım, Fatih. “The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation”. Istanbul Gelisim University Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 5, no. 2, Oct. 2018, pp. 18-38, doi:10.17336/igusbd.398990.
Vancouver
1.Fatih Yıldırım. The Mediator Role of Employee Empowerment on the Effect of Organizational Learning on Innovation. IGUJSS. 2018 Oct. 1;5(2):18-3. doi:10.17336/igusbd.398990

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