Exploring Innovation Performance of Bureaucratic Organization from Perspectives of Leaders’ Political Skill and Innovation Behavior

• Main Authors: Wan-Ting Su, 蘇婉婷
• Other Authors: I-Heng Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/fs9eyw

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 國際經營管理碩士班 === 102 === Organizational reform and organizational innovation nowadays have become a trend not only in the public sectors but also in the private sectors. Yet, bureaucratic structure and the principles of bureaucracy are still hardly preventable from any kind of organizations. Therefore, this research aims at finding a balance between bureaucracy and organizational innovation; hoping to develop a better and practicable recommendation for today''s organizations. The hypotheses in this research hence proposed that individual innovation behavior of leaders would have positive effect on innovation performance of bureaucratic organizations; and the ability of political skill functions as moderator between leader innovation behavior and innovation performance. The results prove that innovation behavior is significant and positively related to innovation performance, product innovation performance and process innovation performance. Additionally, the significant positive relationship between political skill and innovation performance suggests that leaders’ political skill may moderate the relationship between innovation behavior and innovation performance. In this way, we can suggest that in order to compensate rigidity system of bureaucracy, utilizing characteristics of leaders and their authorities may be a feasible way to drive organizational reform and innovation.