The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions

Innovation has been identified as a crucial drive that determines the survival, growth and sustainability of many modern organizations. In today’s competitive environment, innovation can be critical in driving both individual and organizational successes. More importantly, individuals within the...

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Main Authors: Imran , Ayub Ilfandy, Wok, Saodah
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/42720/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/42720/1/The_Antecedents_of_Innovative_Working_Behavior_-_ICCI_2014.pdf
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description Innovation has been identified as a crucial drive that determines the survival, growth and sustainability of many modern organizations. In today’s competitive environment, innovation can be critical in driving both individual and organizational successes. More importantly, individuals within the organizations are the key player in the implementation of innovativeness at work. Hence, this study investigates the antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement. Specifically, this study will take a close look on how communication efficacy, communication climate, mentoring, and networking influence academicians’ innovative working behavior. These communication factors are believed to provide opportunities for the innovation and implementation of novel ideas that will aid employees in achieving their career goals, and thus become a platform for their career advancement in the organizations. The study adopted a quantitative survey research design. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to 132 lecturers from three major Islamic universities in Malaysia. The findings indicate that there are significant relationships found between all four communication factors with innovative working behavior. Specifically, this study found that innovativeness is strongly correlated with communication efficacy, communication climate, networking, and moderately correlated with mentoring. This study also found that innovativeness is strongly correlated with career advancement. Furthermore, regression analysis found that networking is the most influential factor to predict innovative working behavior, followed by efficacy and mentoring.
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spelling iium-427202018-06-25T00:37:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42720/ The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions Imran , Ayub Ilfandy Wok, Saodah HD Industries. Land use. Labor Innovation has been identified as a crucial drive that determines the survival, growth and sustainability of many modern organizations. In today’s competitive environment, innovation can be critical in driving both individual and organizational successes. More importantly, individuals within the organizations are the key player in the implementation of innovativeness at work. Hence, this study investigates the antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement. Specifically, this study will take a close look on how communication efficacy, communication climate, mentoring, and networking influence academicians’ innovative working behavior. These communication factors are believed to provide opportunities for the innovation and implementation of novel ideas that will aid employees in achieving their career goals, and thus become a platform for their career advancement in the organizations. The study adopted a quantitative survey research design. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to 132 lecturers from three major Islamic universities in Malaysia. The findings indicate that there are significant relationships found between all four communication factors with innovative working behavior. Specifically, this study found that innovativeness is strongly correlated with communication efficacy, communication climate, networking, and moderately correlated with mentoring. This study also found that innovativeness is strongly correlated with career advancement. Furthermore, regression analysis found that networking is the most influential factor to predict innovative working behavior, followed by efficacy and mentoring. 2014 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42720/1/The_Antecedents_of_Innovative_Working_Behavior_-_ICCI_2014.pdf Imran , Ayub Ilfandy and Wok, Saodah (2014) The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions. In: 2nd International Conference On Creativity And Innovation For Sustainable Development 2014 (ICCI 2014), 20-22 Oct. 2014, Conference Room, Kuliyyah Information and Communication Technology, International Islamic University Malaysia. http://www.iium.edu.my/irkhs/events/2nd-international-conference-creativity-innovation-sustainable-development-icci-2014
spellingShingle HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Imran , Ayub Ilfandy
Wok, Saodah
The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions
title The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions
title_full The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions
title_fullStr The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions
title_full_unstemmed The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions
title_short The antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in Malaysian Islamic higher learning institutions
title_sort antecedents of innovative working behavior and its impact on career advancement among academicians in malaysian islamic higher learning institutions
topic HD Industries. Land use. Labor
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/42720/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/42720/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/42720/1/The_Antecedents_of_Innovative_Working_Behavior_-_ICCI_2014.pdf