Measuring the Climate of Innovation: An approach to Evaluation for Realizing of Organizational Innovation (Case Study: A defense organization with Complex Products and Systems)

Document Type : Research Article (Original Article)

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1 Associate Professor, Faculty of Management and Industrial Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

2 PhD candidate of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Industrial Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Nowadays due to taking place rapid changes, successful organizations are looking for the vision, goals and strategic objectives of their business as this requires entails applying innovation in organizations to meet current and future demands of the stakeholders. In this regard climate of innovation is one of the most important organizational capabilities that understanding and reinforcement it, leads to reduction in time and cost of transforming into an innovative organization. So the present study was carried out in the territory of Acrospace Industries Organization, taking into account the problem that "Prolonging and increasing the cost of applying innovation to produce innovative products with reasonable price and desirable quality", seeks to answer to these questions: What is the quantative rate of the climate of innovation in this organization? And what are the areas for improvemet of innovation climate in a defense organization with innovative CoPS? The strategy of research was survey, using evaluation method based on the climate of innovation questionnaire and purposive sampling by focusing on 44 executives and senior experts in "Planning" and "Research and Innovation" units of organization and its subsidiaries staff. The analysis of the data showed that the amount of innovative climate was 59.9% and explained 24 improvement areas that most of them are related to "risk-taking, admit of errors and failures" and "support for innovation" and "trust, transparency, honesty".

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  • Receive Date: 26 September 2018
  • Accept Date: 26 September 2018

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