INTERRELATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT NEEDS BETWEEN INNOVATION COMPETENCE AND INNOVATION CULTURE?

摘要

The future competitiveness of organizations is dependent on their ability to innovate. On one hand, for organization's personnel to develop themselves and their innovation competence, the needs for development should be discovered. On the other hand, as the development of a positive innovation culture is regarded as a solid base for the innovations, the development requires that the management additionally discover the needs for development of the organization. The development needs, for individual innovation competence i.e. creative tension and for organizational innovation culture i.e. proactive vision, both can be portrayed with the difference between the current and the future state. The visualization can be carried out via personnel's self-evaluation of linguistic statements and results shown both numerically and non-numerically. Yet, an interesting question remains: do those results of creative tension and proactive vision have interrelations with each other? Therefore, this paper aims to find interrelations between creative tension of individual's innovation competence and proactive vision of organizational innovation culture. The paper deals with the concepts of innovation, innovation competences, innovation culture. Then the discussion goes on to describe the method of self-evaluation via software tool, creative tension, proactive vision and Friedman test for non-numeric data. And after that the results of an empirical study in organizations are presented.