- Title
- Role of leader initiated innovated triggers in motivating employees to innovate in the public sector at a provincial government department in the Western Cape province
- Creator
- Zata, Hebert
- Subject
- Provincial government--Western Cape
- Subject
- Public sector--Western Cape
- Date Issued
- 2023-04
- Date
- 2023-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/63196
- Identifier
- vital:73194
- Description
- The South African public sector has become known for poor service delivery due to a number of factors; these factors include a lack of innovation, or inadequate innovation, which could be as a result of the compliance requirements of various laws and regulations. As a result, the public sector must find ways to innovate within its operating context, even as efforts are being made to reform its structure and manner of operation. This research followed a case study approach, focussed on a provincial government department in the Western Cape province of South Africa, in order to investigate the role of leader-initiated innovation triggers in motivating employees to innovate. The premise was that staff would be motivated to innovate if public sector top leadership demonstrate that it is possible to do so within the current operational framework; this would, potentially, lead to the successful establishment of an innovation culture within the organisation. The methodology employed in this empirical study was exploratory sequential mixed methods research. Senior management from the case subject organisation were interviewed in order to obtain their views on pertinent issues relating to the research topic. Themes that emerged from the interviews were combined with key elements from the literature review in order to formulate a model of how leader-initiated innovation triggers can potentially motivate employees to innovate. The model was subsequently tested, quantitatively, using a questionnaire survey. The study responded to the primary research objective by establishing the existence of moderately positive relationships between leader-initiated innovation triggers and employee motivation to innovate; this confirmed that leaders' display of certain practices, actions and behaviours can motivate employees to innovate and, subsequently, help build an innovation culture within a bureaucratic public sector environment.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences, 2023
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (xviii, 259 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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