Role of empowerment and worker's identification with their teams for an innovative climate

• Autor(a) principal: Ramírez, Manuel Fernando Montoya
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Ostos, Jhony, Arteaga, Arturo Rodolfo Saenz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração de Empresas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rae/article/view/81312
• topic: Empowerment; Identification with work teams; innovation climate; job performance; work commitment; Empoderamento; identificação das equipes de trabalho; clima de inovação; desempenho no trabalho; comprometimento no trabalho

Several studies argue that an organizational climate oriented to promote innovation generates greater competitiveness in companies. However, very few researchers have explored the factors that lead to the formation of innovation climate and their effects on workers’ performance. Based on a sample of 201 workers from manufacturing andservice companies, an analysis was carried out to examine the influence of variables like empowerment and identification with work teams in innovation climate. Furthermore, the influence of innovation climate on job performance and work commitment was analyzed. The results indicate that there is a positive relationship among the variables of the hypotheses, empowerment and Identification with work teams influence in innovation climate, and the latter influences work performance and work commitment.