Success factors for corporate innovation: employees´ intrinsic motivation to innovate in the workplace

• Autor(a) principal: Loureiro, Inês Gomes de Castro Morais
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/156847
• topic: Leadership; Innovation; Human capital; Workplace; Employees; Change management; Millennials; Intrinsic motivation; Task enjoyment; Employee motivation; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Employee motivation is seen as a success factor for corporate innovation. This study focused in understanding how some Portuguese companies are motivating their employees to innovate in the workplace, with a special focus on intrinsic motivation. This form of motivation reflects one’s inherent pleasure in performing a certain activity, without any external reward. The results of the study show that employees in Portugal are mostly motivated by task enjoyment and personal development, both reflecting a form of intrinsic motivation. When motivated by task enjoyment, individuals tend to invest more effort in their activities, and thus develop more innovative work behaviors.