Product innovation encouragement amongst workforce in SMES manufacturing sector
Innovation is a fundamental catalyst to the growth and development of a country economy. The ever changing and uncertainty of world recent economy demand Malaysia to put innovation and creativity as a key factor to achieve a knowledge-based economy. However, some SMEs in Malaysia do not recogniz...
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| Summary: | Innovation is a fundamental catalyst to the growth and development of a country economy. The
ever changing and uncertainty of world recent economy demand Malaysia to put innovation and
creativity as a key factor to achieve a knowledge-based economy. However, some SMEs in
Malaysia do not recognize change and reform as an innovation, and part of their manufacturing
activities. Thus, innovation activities should be improved especially among SMEs workforce in
order to overcome the innovative crisis in uncertain world economy environment. Therefore, this
research investigated the factors that contribute to the encouragement of product innovation
among SMEs workforce in the manufacturing sectors, in Batu Pahat, Johor. There were 40
respondents involved in this research through questionnaires as a major instrument of data
collection. The results showed that there were five factors contributed to the product innovation
among SMEs workforce; namely leadership, organizational culture, organization structure,
human resource management, and environmental factors. The mean revealed that the most
encouraging factors towards product innovation is human resource management (4.32). The
overall finding showed that all the factors contribute to the encouragement of product innovation
among SMEs workforce, therefore effort towards imparting innovation should be prioritized in
SMEs operation. |
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