Individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a Malaysian Islamic higher learning institution

Innovation has been identified as a crucial drive that determines the survival, growth and sustainability of many modern organizations. In today's competitive environment, innovation can be critical in driving both individual and organizational successes. More importantly, individual within th...

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Main Authors:	Ilfandy, Ayub, Wok, Saodah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	University of Padjajaran 2014
Subjects:	H61.8 Communication of information
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/50097/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50097/5/PACA_2014.pdf

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spelling	iium-500972016-08-02T06:07:12Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50097/ Individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a Malaysian Islamic higher learning institution Ilfandy, Ayub Wok, Saodah H61.8 Communication of information Innovation has been identified as a crucial drive that determines the survival, growth and sustainability of many modern organizations. In today's competitive environment, innovation can be critical in driving both individual and organizational successes. More importantly, individual within the organizations are the key player in the implementation of innovativeness at work. Hence, this study investigates the mediating effect of innovativeness on the selected communication factors towards career advancement. Specifically, this study takes a close look on how communication efficacy, communication climate, mentoring, and networking influence academicians' innovative working behavior. These communication factors are believed to provide opportunities for the innovation and implementation of novel ideas that will aid employees in achieving their career goals, and thus become a platform for their career advancement in the organizations. This study adopted quantitative survey research design. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to 70 lecturers at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The findings indicate that there are significant and positive relationships found between all four communication factors with individual innovativeness. The results also indicate innovativeness is strongly correlated with career advancement. More importantly, the study found the mediating effect of innovativeness on communication factors towards career advancement, especially networking. Additionally, regression analysis found that networking is the best predictor for academicians' innovative working behavior. University of Padjajaran 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50097/5/PACA_2014.pdf Ilfandy, Ayub and Wok, Saodah (2014) Individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a Malaysian Islamic higher learning institution. In: 10th Biennial Convention of Pacific and Asian Communication Association (PACA) 2014, 24-26 June 2014, Bandung, Indonesia.
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description	Innovation has been identified as a crucial drive that determines the survival, growth and sustainability of many modern organizations. In today's competitive environment, innovation can be critical in driving both individual and organizational successes. More importantly, individual within the organizations are the key player in the implementation of innovativeness at work. Hence, this study investigates the mediating effect of innovativeness on the selected communication factors towards career advancement. Specifically, this study takes a close look on how communication efficacy, communication climate, mentoring, and networking influence academicians' innovative working behavior. These communication factors are believed to provide opportunities for the innovation and implementation of novel ideas that will aid employees in achieving their career goals, and thus become a platform for their career advancement in the organizations. This study adopted quantitative survey research design. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to 70 lecturers at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The findings indicate that there are significant and positive relationships found between all four communication factors with individual innovativeness. The results also indicate innovativeness is strongly correlated with career advancement. More importantly, the study found the mediating effect of innovativeness on communication factors towards career advancement, especially networking. Additionally, regression analysis found that networking is the best predictor for academicians' innovative working behavior.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ilfandy, Ayub Wok, Saodah
author_facet	Ilfandy, Ayub Wok, Saodah
author_sort	Ilfandy, Ayub
title	Individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a Malaysian Islamic higher learning institution
title_short	Individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a Malaysian Islamic higher learning institution
title_full	Individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a Malaysian Islamic higher learning institution
title_fullStr	Individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a Malaysian Islamic higher learning institution
title_full_unstemmed	Individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a Malaysian Islamic higher learning institution
title_sort	individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a malaysian islamic higher learning institution
publisher	University of Padjajaran
publishDate	2014
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/50097/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50097/5/PACA_2014.pdf
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Individual innovativeness as a mediating factor between selected communication factors and career advancement in a Malaysian Islamic higher learning institution

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