THE EFFECT OF INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOUR ON ORGANISATIONAL CREATIVITY: A CASE OF TECHNOPARK EMPLOYEES

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The rapid progress of technological developments causes pressure on the competitive power of enterprises. In this case, businesses need an innovative structure and at the same time employees who will create this structure. Innovative work behaviour is the activities that will provide gains to the organisation or the employee himself/herself regarding the activities within the employee's duties and responsibilities. For organisational creativity, a high cultural background, courage, determination, holistic thinking, visionary perspective towards the future, attitude and behaviour integrity, which have an important place in the formation and development of creativity, are necessary. Technopolises are a very important tool in ensuring the cooperation between university-industry-government in the process of transforming innovative knowledge and technologies into innovation. Therefore, innovative work behaviours of the employees in technopolis companies and their transformation into organisational creativity are of great importance. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of innovative work behaviour on organisational creativity for technopolis employees in Istanbul. As a result of the correlation analysis, the dimensions were found to be positively and significantly related to each other. As innovative work behaviour increases, organisational creativity increases by 54.8%. As a result of regression analysis, innovative work behaviour has a positive statistically significant effect on organisational creativity (β=0.602, p<0.01). innovative work behaviour sub-dimensions of Idea Generation (β=0.368, p<0.01), Research (β=0.322, p<0.01), Support (β=0.265, p<0.01) and Implementation (β=0.319, p<0.01) have a positive statistically significant effect on organisational creativity. While the greatest effect on organisational creativity was found to be producing and researching, the least effect was found to be supporting and implementation.