The Mediator Effect of Intrinsic Motivation on the Relationship between Individual Innovativeness and Employee’s Innovative Behavior: The Case of Surgeons in Turkey

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the effect of the individual innovativeness behavior, which may be the precursor of employees' behaviors towards innovation, on the employees’ innovative behavior and the mediating role of the intrinsic motivation on this effect. According to the results of the survey which 161 surgeons working in public and private hospitals in Turkey participated in, the relationship between three sub-dimensions resistance to change, opinion leadership and openness to experience and the employees’ innovative behavior was determined. Moreover, there was also a significantly positive correlation between intrinsic motivation and openness to experience. Furthermore, one of the emerging results is that the partial intermediary role of the intrinsic motivation has an influence in the effect of the openness to experience, which is one of the sub-dimensions of individual innovativeness behavior on the employees’ innovative behavior.

Keywords

• Individual Innovativeness,Employee’s Innovative Behaviour,Intrinsic Motivation

Bireysel Yenilikçiliğin Çalışanın Yenilikçi Davranışı Üzerindeki Etkisinde İçsel Motivasyonun Aracılık Rolü: Türkiye’de Cerrahlar Örneği

Abstract

Yenilikleri yönlendiren yapı taşlarından birisinin bireylerin yenilikçi davranışları olması, çalışanların bireysel düzeyde yenilikçiliklerinin önemini arttırmaktadır. Bireysel düzeyde yenilikçiliğin çalışanlarda yenilikçi davranışı arttırma olasılığı bu kavramlar arası ilişkiyi önemli bir araştırma konusu haline getirmektedir. Yürütülen çalışmanın amacı, çalışanların yeniliğe yönelik davranışlarının öncülü olabilecek bireysel yenilikçilik davranışının BYD , çalışanın yenilikçi davranışı ÇYD üzerindeki etkisini ve bu etkide içsel motivasyonun aracılık rolünü araştırmaktır. Araştırmada elde edilen veriler yapısal eşitlik modellemesi YEM ile analiz edilmiştir. Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren kamu ve özel hastanelerde çalışan 161 cerrahın katıldığı araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre, BYD’nin üç alt boyutu değişime direnç, fikir önderliği ve deneyime açıklık ile ÇYD arasında ilişki tespit edilmiştir. Yine içsel motivasyon ile deneyime açıklık arasında da pozitif yönlü anlamlı bir ilişki olduğu görülmüştür. Ayrıca BYD’nin alt boyutu olan deneyime açıklığın ÇYD üzerindeki etkisinde içsel motivasyonun kısmi aracılık etkisi de ortaya çıkan sonuçlardandır.

Keywords

• Bireysel Yenilikçilik, Çalışanın Yenilikçi Davranışı, İçsel Motivasyon

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