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Innovativeness and Drivers of Manager's Innovativeness

Innovativeness and Drivers of Manager's Innovativeness
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Copyright: 2019
Pages: 30
Source title: Personal Values as Drivers of Managerial Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Zlatko Nedelko (University of Maribor, Slovenia)and Vojko Potocan (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3250-7.ch002

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Abstract

The main purpose of this chapter is to identify and outline drivers of manager's innovativeness in organizations. Managers have the decisive role in efforts for innovativeness in organizations since they must create and maintain appropriate conditions for innovative working and behavior. First, the chapter outlines what is innovativeness and distinguishes between low and high innovative organizations. Next, is presented a framework for understanding the role of management in organizations, followed by addressing the under-considered area in frame of management behavior stream – namely innovativeness of manager's. Outlined are key drivers of manager's innovativeness, which importantly determine manager's attitudes towards innovativeness, which are necessary pre-conditions for increasing innovativeness in an organization. In the final section, rationales behind human behavior are outlined, which provides a fertile ground for future research.

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