Role of HR interventions in enhancing employee creativity and organizational innovation: an empirical study

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of HR interventions (rewards and incentives, training, organisational learning) on employee creativity to enhance organisational innovation in connection to the Indian automobile industries.

Design/methodology/approach

The study examined 258 valid responses of middle-level and top-level executives working in four wheeler automobile manufacturing units, and research and development units constituted in Southern India. The hypothesised model’s validity was tested through structural equation modelling (SEM). The confirmatory factor analysis established the reliability and validity of the dimensions and the related hypotheses were tested by using SEM.

Findings

The findings illustrate that HR interventions have an impact on employee creativity which helps in enhancing organisational innovation.

Originality/value

The research is unique in its attempt to measure the creativity of an individual for organisational innovation by combining the existing scales of employee creativity. The paper contributes to the HR literature by incorporating HR interventions and employee creativity into a research model that enhances organisational innovation.

Citation

Chaubey, A. and Sahoo, C.K. (2019), "Role of HR interventions in enhancing employee creativity and organizational innovation: an empirical study", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 51 No. 3, pp. 195-206. https://doi.org/10.1108/ICT-09-2018-0079