International Journal of Supply Chain Management
Vol 8, No 5 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)

The Relationship of Innovation Capabilities Towards Employees’ Perormance: Mediating Effect of Cultural Diversity in UAE Manufacturing Companies

Md Fauzi Ahmad (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Hamdan Sohail Obaid Alhefeiti (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM))
Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi (Unknown)
Arman Shah Abdullah (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Oct 2019

Abstract

Innovation capabilities of employees was considered as the main strategic activity of administered as a means of objective assessment of the individual performance of various professionals in MOI UAE. This study first aimed to identify whether employees’ innovation capabilities in MOI would exhibit better performance in UAE. Secondly, this study also aimed to identify the theoretical issues related with cultural and technological diversity with individual innovation capabilities and gave the ways to improve their performance in MOI UAE setting. This study proposes a conceptual framework for understanding innovation process and knowledge management aspects of innovation capability which would influence individual performance. The conceptual framework includes cultural diversity as mediating variable in the effect of innovation capability which would influence individual performance. The conceptual carry out through empirical review of literature and development of hypothesis. The adaption of well-structured questionnaire used in this study. The study also validates the proposed conceptual framework using a second-order confirmatory factor analysis technique, namely, structural equations modelling, with the data collected from 607 followers from 6 MOI departments in the UAE.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJSCM

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Engineering Environmental Science Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Transportation

Description

International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM) is a peer-reviewed indexed journal, ISSN: 2050-7399 (Online), 2051-3771 (Print), that publishes original, high quality, supply chain management empirical research that will have a significant impact on SCM theory and practice. Manuscripts ...