A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION ON INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOURS AND FEAR OF FAILURE

Year 2017, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 40 - 59, 26.12.2017

Yasemin Gülbahar

Abstract

Organizations that
operate in the present quick changing competitive world face an expanding
interest to engage in innovative behaviors to create and deliver new products
and to gain sustainable competitive advantage. In order to accomplish this task
successfully organizations nowadays rely increasingly on their employees to
innovate. Innovations are quickly arising and changing the marketplace and even
radical innovations are causing creative destructions. Management is for the
most part in charge of success or failure, so they should discover approaches
to increase innovation within the organization. One significant method of doing
this is to reduce the FF which is caused by negative management responses to
both innovation and failures from endeavors at risky new ideas. FF makes the
entrepreneur, who even takes his own decisions and believes in the necessity of
innovation, end many initiatives without the beginning because of the
negativity that might arise as a result of innovation. For this reason,
innovative behaviors and the related concept of FF, should be examined in
detail and thus lead to work in the field. The study aims to investigate the
relationship between innovative behaviors and FF and to reveal the effects of
the concepts in organizational psychology and entrepreneurship.

Keywords

Innovation, Innovative Work Behaivours, Fear of Failure

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