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The Relationship between Human Resource Practices and Innovation Performance.

While facing a dynamic environment, a company needs innovation to enhance their competitiveness and to continue to grow in terms of profits. For the company, the question becomes not ¡§whether¡¨ but ¡§how¡¨ to innovate. This thesis, with a perspective of human resources, explores how organizational innovation capabilities, innovative culture, and human resource practices directly affect the effectiveness of innovation. In addition, the indirect impact of human resource practices intertwined with innovation capabilities and innovative culture as a mediator is also under scrutiny.
This thesis is conducted through opinion survey, with 201 samples out of 250 manufacturers introduced by Tianxia Magazine. With the valid 111 questionnaires replied by the chairs or directors of human resources department in each company, the findings of this thesis can be summarized as follows:
1. Innovation capability impacts the innovation performance positively.
2. Innovative culture impacts the innovation performance positively.
3. Human resource practices impacts the innovation performance positively.
4. Human resource practices impacts the innovation capability positively.
5. Innovation capability has mediating effect between human resource practices and innovation performance.
6. Human resource practices impacts the innovative culture positively.
7. Innovative culture has mediating effect between human resource practices and innovation performance.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0617108-234350
Date17 June 2008
CreatorsLu, Yeh-Wen
ContributorsLiang-Chih Huang, Shu-Ling Wu, Shyh-Jer Chen, Jin-Feng Uen
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0617108-234350
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