Abstract:

Individual innovation is, in the simplest definition, the desire to research and find innovation individually. In other words, it can be defined as developing, accepting or implementing an innovation. Work performance can be defined as effective behaviors that the staff shows in order to contribute to the enterprise’s efforts to its objectives and goals. In a more general expression, it is a qualitative and quantitative expression of what a employee can towards the targeted goals related to the job. In this context, the purpose of the study is to identify the impact of individual innovation on work performance. For this purpose, 200 volunteers were reached in a machine-making company in the center of the province of Konya. The findings found the positive and meaningful impact of individual innovation and subdimensions (except the subdimensions of resistance to change) on work performance. There has been no significant differences between gender knowledge and demographic variables, individual innovation and work performance. Another demographic variable is a significant difference between the knowledge of the civic state and individual innovation and business performance.

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Abstract:

Individual innovation is in its simplest definition; it is the desire to research and find innovations individually. In other words, it can be defined as developing, accepting or implementing an innovation. Work performance can be defined as the effective behaviors of the staff in order to contribute to the effort of the enterprise to reach its goals and objectives. In more general terms, it is the qualitative and quantitative expression of what an employee can achieve for the intended purposes related to his or her work. In this context, the aim of the study is to determine the effect of individual innovation on work performance. For this purpose, 200 volunteers with white and blue collars were reached in a company manufacturing machinery in the city center of Konya. As a result of the findings, the positive and meaningful impact of individual innovation and its sub-dimensions (excluding the sub-dimension of resistance to change) on work performance was determined. Gender information from demographic variables; no significant difference was found between individual innovation and work performance. A significant difference was found between marital status information, another demographic variable, individual innovation and work performance.