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5. Workplace Innovation in Government Organizations and Its Relationship with Organizational Culture

Author : Leonie Newnham

Published in: The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Innovation

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter addresses the relationship between organizational culture and workplace innovation in a public sector organization. The study identifies how organizational culture impacts on a public sector organization’s ability to innovate. The research was conducted within the context of a large public sector organisation in Victoria, Australia.. A case study approach was utilized using an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach based on a survey of 479 employees. Triangulation with qualitative data sourced from the survey and internal documents corroborated the findings. Public sector culture was identified as a significant antecedent of workplace innovation predicting 24.6% of variation and identifying significant variation in individual innovation, organizational innovation, team innovation and workplace innovation climate, which impacted an employee’s capacity to innovate. Group-level culture was particularly influential.

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Metadata
Title
Workplace Innovation in Government Organizations and Its Relationship with Organizational Culture
Author
Leonie Newnham
Copyright Year
2021
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Innovation

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-59915-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-59916-4

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59916-4_5

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