TY - JOUR
T1 - The use and determinants of training and development for creativity and innovation
AU - Manresa, Alba
AU - Bikfalvi, Andrea
AU - Simon, Alexandra
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for the financial support from the University of Girona (Spain) MPCUdG2016/093. The author(s) also disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: (a) Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation ECO2013-46954-C3-2-R Research Funding (Alexandra Simon); (b) Autonomous Government of Catalonia 2014 SGR 868 Research funding (Alexandra Simon).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Human Resource Management (HRM) practices are considered as a possible contributor to firm success. Further research is needed in this field to address how HRM practices contribute to a firm's ability to be creative and innovative. The first objective of this paper is to map the implementation of training and development practices for creativity and innovation (TD4CI) in manufacturing and the second is to analyse the factors that most influence this implementation. The study, based on the Spanish sub-sample of the European Manufacturing Survey, demonstrates the unexhausted potential of TD4CI as a step prior to innovation. The results show that one third of the companies currently use TD4CI and that this figure is rising. Most of the firms, however, have not put these practices into place and they have no intention of doing so. Regarding the determinants that influence the studied practices, the results show that there are some significant factors, for example new products or services being introduced within the company in the previous three years, that positively affect all the practices. Other determinants are individually significant, for instance the complexity of the product. Some factors, on the other hand, such as size or single unit production, do not appear to influence any of the practices studied so far. The value of this research lies in the up-to-date, relevant figures it provides regarding the implementation and dissemination of TD4CI.
AB - Human Resource Management (HRM) practices are considered as a possible contributor to firm success. Further research is needed in this field to address how HRM practices contribute to a firm's ability to be creative and innovative. The first objective of this paper is to map the implementation of training and development practices for creativity and innovation (TD4CI) in manufacturing and the second is to analyse the factors that most influence this implementation. The study, based on the Spanish sub-sample of the European Manufacturing Survey, demonstrates the unexhausted potential of TD4CI as a step prior to innovation. The results show that one third of the companies currently use TD4CI and that this figure is rising. Most of the firms, however, have not put these practices into place and they have no intention of doing so. Regarding the determinants that influence the studied practices, the results show that there are some significant factors, for example new products or services being introduced within the company in the previous three years, that positively affect all the practices. Other determinants are individually significant, for instance the complexity of the product. Some factors, on the other hand, such as size or single unit production, do not appear to influence any of the practices studied so far. The value of this research lies in the up-to-date, relevant figures it provides regarding the implementation and dissemination of TD4CI.
KW - Creativity
KW - development
KW - human resource management
KW - human resource practice
KW - innovation
KW - training
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U2 - 10.1142/S1363919618500627
DO - 10.1142/S1363919618500627
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044335167
SN - 1363-9196
VL - 22
JO - International Journal of Innovation Management
JF - International Journal of Innovation Management
IS - 7
M1 - 1850062
ER -