Climate for Innovation impacts on Adaptive Performance. Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation
 
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Assistant Professor Wroclaw University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland
 
 
Online publication date: 2017-06-09
 
 
Management 2017;21(1):40-57
 
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The main objective of this paper was to examine the relationship between organizational climate for innovation and adaptive performance. The study was carried out in business organisations in Poland (N=387), representing variety of industries. The Cimate for Innovation measure and Individual Adaptive Performance measure was adopted from previous studies. The results of presented research point out that certain measurements of the organizational climate for innovation are interrelated to adaptive performance, especially supervisory encouragement. The present study discusses some aspects concerning the adaptation of existing instruments and measurements. On the basis of the research presented we indicate that, in general, the adaptation, of the mesearuments were relatively effective. The questionnaire was assessed as to be valid in terms of content for the reseraching CI and AP aspects in Poland.
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