Fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in Malaysia's knowledge intensive business services - A social capital perspective

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between social capital and innovative work behavior among the knowledge workers of the knowledge intensive business services in Malaysia.It was reported that social capital to have a significant relationship with innovative work behavior of em...

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Main Authors: Yeoh, Khar Kheng, June, Sethela
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22430/1/ICBM%202014%20112%20119.pdf
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description This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between social capital and innovative work behavior among the knowledge workers of the knowledge intensive business services in Malaysia.It was reported that social capital to have a significant relationship with innovative work behavior of employees in various business sectors. However, some researchers concluded the relationship is rather weak. A total of 1520 mail survey questionnaires was distributed and 310 deemed usable for analysis using SPSS, resulted in 20.6 % response rate. The results revealed that there was a significant relationship between social capitals and the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers.
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spelling uum-224302017-06-22T02:27:06Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22430/ Fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in Malaysia's knowledge intensive business services - A social capital perspective Yeoh, Khar Kheng June, Sethela HD28 Management. Industrial Management This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between social capital and innovative work behavior among the knowledge workers of the knowledge intensive business services in Malaysia.It was reported that social capital to have a significant relationship with innovative work behavior of employees in various business sectors. However, some researchers concluded the relationship is rather weak. A total of 1520 mail survey questionnaires was distributed and 310 deemed usable for analysis using SPSS, resulted in 20.6 % response rate. The results revealed that there was a significant relationship between social capitals and the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers. 2014-08-18 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22430/1/ICBM%202014%20112%20119.pdf Yeoh, Khar Kheng and June, Sethela (2014) Fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in Malaysia's knowledge intensive business services - A social capital perspective. In: International Conference on Business Management (ICBM) 2014, 18-19 August 2014, Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in Malaysia's knowledge intensive business services - A social capital perspective
title Fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in Malaysia's knowledge intensive business services - A social capital perspective
title_full Fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in Malaysia's knowledge intensive business services - A social capital perspective
title_fullStr Fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in Malaysia's knowledge intensive business services - A social capital perspective
title_full_unstemmed Fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in Malaysia's knowledge intensive business services - A social capital perspective
title_short Fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in Malaysia's knowledge intensive business services - A social capital perspective
title_sort fostering the innovative work behavior of knowledge workers in malaysia s knowledge intensive business services a social capital perspective
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