Innovativeness In Process; Study Relationship Between Organizational Climate & Innovativeness In Process By SEM

In the world of today, most of countries attempt to improve their productivity and economic status by concentrating on innovation. Organizations have considered factors affecting innovation and have achieved enormous competitive advantages. The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of organizational climate in terms of seven dimensions of cohesiveness, autonomy, challenge, resources, openness to innovation, encouragement and supervision on process innovativeness. Data has been collected by random sampling in Khodrocar Lizing company as a subdivision of Iran Khodro Industrial Group. The validity of the conceptual models of each dimension of climate and process innovativeness has been assessed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Results imply the validity of causal relationship between components and the latent variable except for the cohesiveness dimension. Finally, the hypotheses of research have been examined by structural equation modeling (SEM). Findings imply that challenge, resources, openness to innovation, and supervision influence process innovativeness. Supervision has the highest influence and openness to innovation has negative influence on innovativeness, while in prioritizing the factors by the Vikor technique, openness to innovation has the first rank.