The Differentiating Effect of Innovation Culture in SMEs According to Employee Perception

Innovation culture and strategic human resource management, besides organizational outcomes, have direct positive effects on employees. Strategic human resource management and innovative managerial approaches have important tasks such as improving the effectiveness of social interaction and communication between employees. Also innovation culture increases psychological ownership of employees and therefore has positive effect on the job satisfaction through emotional commitment to organization. In this study, the effect of innovation culture on the job satisfaction is discussed with the mediator roles of strategic human resource management and employee ownership. Another aim of the study is to identify the mediating effect of employee ownership on the relationship between organizational factors (strategic human resource management and innovation culture) with job satisfaction in different firm scales. To test the propositions, a field survey using questionnaires was conducted. The findings indicate that innovation culture is directly effective on employee behaviors, especially in small and medium sized enterprises. As a result of this approach, innovation culture in small and medium sized enterprises must be a critical motivator for success of the employees and engage in efforts to restructure workplace for employee satisfaction. On the other hand, strategic human resource management is more effective than innovation culture in the big scale firms. The results indicate that employee ownership as a critical psychological factor for big scale enterprises creates a step between the organizational factors and job satisfaction so psychological ownership is found to be a key variable between organizational factors and individual attitudes in the big scale firms. The findings suggest that employee ownership positively influences job satisfaction of employee, and is in turn positively influenced by strategic human resource management and innovation culture of big companies.

کلیدواژه ها:

innovation culture ، strategic human resource management ، employee ownership ، job satisfaction