Creativity, venture creation and innovation of generation Y in Malaysia - A comparison of generation X and generation Y

Successful and enduring companies today have to maintain a competitive advantage and this is one of the challenges most companies faced today. Increasing demands and expectations of customers resulted in most companies looking to recruit more productive, responsive and creative workers.All generati...

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Main Authors: Cheng, Wei Hin, Md Isa, Filzah, Bohari, Abdul Manaf
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/17929/1/CIIC%202015%201-11.pdf
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description Successful and enduring companies today have to maintain a competitive advantage and this is one of the challenges most companies faced today. Increasing demands and expectations of customers resulted in most companies looking to recruit more productive, responsive and creative workers.All generations have different values brand creativity. Therefore the new entrants of Generation Y into the workforce do warrant some research into their level of creativity and innovation.Are the Generation Y 's creativity and innovation very different from the last generation (Generation X)?.This research examined the differences between these two generations in terms of their venture creation and innovation.For purpose of this study, 200 questionnaires were distributed to respondents of generation X and Y.Based on the t- Test analysis , there was significant differences of generation X and generation Y associated with venture creation and innovation.Discussion was provided at the end of the research about the possible reasons for the creativity, venture creation and innovation differences between the two generations. Strategies to encourage creativity between the generation were also discussed in this paper.
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spelling uum-179292016-04-17T07:41:44Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/17929/ Creativity, venture creation and innovation of generation Y in Malaysia - A comparison of generation X and generation Y Cheng, Wei Hin Md Isa, Filzah Bohari, Abdul Manaf HD28 Management. Industrial Management Successful and enduring companies today have to maintain a competitive advantage and this is one of the challenges most companies faced today. Increasing demands and expectations of customers resulted in most companies looking to recruit more productive, responsive and creative workers.All generations have different values brand creativity. Therefore the new entrants of Generation Y into the workforce do warrant some research into their level of creativity and innovation.Are the Generation Y 's creativity and innovation very different from the last generation (Generation X)?.This research examined the differences between these two generations in terms of their venture creation and innovation.For purpose of this study, 200 questionnaires were distributed to respondents of generation X and Y.Based on the t- Test analysis , there was significant differences of generation X and generation Y associated with venture creation and innovation.Discussion was provided at the end of the research about the possible reasons for the creativity, venture creation and innovation differences between the two generations. Strategies to encourage creativity between the generation were also discussed in this paper. 2015-10-04 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/17929/1/CIIC%202015%201-11.pdf Cheng, Wei Hin and Md Isa, Filzah and Bohari, Abdul Manaf (2015) Creativity, venture creation and innovation of generation Y in Malaysia - A comparison of generation X and generation Y. In: Creative Industry International Conference (CIIC 2015), 4 - 5 October 2015, Universiti Utara Malaysia. http://www.ciic.cms.net.my/default/home.html
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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Md Isa, Filzah
Bohari, Abdul Manaf
Creativity, venture creation and innovation of generation Y in Malaysia - A comparison of generation X and generation Y
title Creativity, venture creation and innovation of generation Y in Malaysia - A comparison of generation X and generation Y
title_full Creativity, venture creation and innovation of generation Y in Malaysia - A comparison of generation X and generation Y
title_fullStr Creativity, venture creation and innovation of generation Y in Malaysia - A comparison of generation X and generation Y
title_full_unstemmed Creativity, venture creation and innovation of generation Y in Malaysia - A comparison of generation X and generation Y
title_short Creativity, venture creation and innovation of generation Y in Malaysia - A comparison of generation X and generation Y
title_sort creativity venture creation and innovation of generation y in malaysia a comparison of generation x and generation y
topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
url https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/17929/1/CIIC%202015%201-11.pdf
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