In a current trend of globalization and multifaceted trend of developments, a similar issue that a majority of organizations face is that their competition constantly releases new ideas and challenges. To keep up with this level of competition in the global market, an organization must also consistently churn out new innovations and creations. Human resources are an organization¡¦s greatest source of productive capital. And only with a highly innovative team of employees can an organization maintain its competitiveness. When these employees experience a high level of job satisfaction, they will be able to raise an organization¡¦s productivity, and create a positive momentum towards innovation. This study seeks to identify the relationship between an individual¡¦s sense of humor, innovation & job satisfaction. It also analyzes the forecasting reliability of an individual¡¦s sense of humor versus job satisfaction, and the mediating effect of a sense of humor towards job satisfaction.
The objects of our study are domestic organizations in a questionnaire based research 1,274 questionnaires were sent out, and 1,227 completed questionnaires were received. Of this, 1,213 questionnaires were deemed usable, creating a returns ratio of 95.21%. By analyzing the questionnaires, the following conclusions were obtained.
1. A sense of humor has a positive influence towards innovation.
2. Innovation has a positive influence towards job satisfaction.
3. A sense of humor has a positive influence towards job satisfaction.
4. Using innovation as an intermediary, a sense of humor has a partial impact on the whole of job satisfaction.
5. Using innovation as an intermediary, a sense of humor has a partial impact on internal job satisfaction.
6. Using innovation as an intermediary, a sense of humor has a full impact on external job satisfaction.
Based on the above, humor does have an important impact on innovation and job satisfaction. Innovation also plays an intermediary effect between humor and job satisfaction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0805109-212903 |
| Date | 05 August 2009 |
| Creators | Yang, Tsui-ping |
| Contributors | Yong-Chuan Wang, Jie-Tsuen Huang, Chin-Ming Ho |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0805109-212903 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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