Innovative Behaviors: Mediate Mechanism of Job Attitudes

摘要

The purpose of this study was determining the causal relationships between organizational culture with innovative behaviors by mediating of work attitudes among employees of an Iranian industrial company. This was a cross-sectional-descriptive study. Participants of this research were 240 employees of an organization who were selected via multistage random sampling and then completed the research instruments. Four questionnaires were chosen to gather data: Organizational Culture Survey (OCS; make by Glaser, Zamanou & Hacker; 1987), Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (Brayfield & Rothe; 1951), Organizational Commitment (Meyer & Allen; 1993) and Innovation Behavior (Krause; 2004). Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) through AMOS-16 and SPSS-17 software packages were used for data analysis.The results of the hypothesized CFA indicated that relationships between each indicator variable and its respective latent variable were statistically significant. SEM analysis supported model also fitting with data.The findings of this study support that Job attitudes are important mechanisms by which organizational culture affects innovative behaviors.