From HR Practices to Innovation: An Empirical Study of High-Performance Work Practices and Employee Innovative Behaviour

Abstract

The employee innovation has become an important source of competitive advantage for the organization particularly in dynamic and performance driven environment. The current study empirically investigates the determinants of high performance work practices specially focusing on rewards and benefits, training and development, and employee involvement in relationship with the employee in the innovative work behaviour. By using a quantitative research design, the data was collected through a structure question year from total of 321 employees working in chashma sugar mill unit 1 and unit 2, Who had completed their training and were actually engage in working activities in the same units. Simple random technique were employed and data analyzed by using the  inferential analysis. The finding reveals a strong and significant positive relations between all dimensions of the high performance work practices and innovative work behaviour. The compensation and benefit demonstrates the high significant correlation with and employee innovative work behaviour, succeeding by training and development as well as employee involvement. The regression analysis results further confirm that high performance work practices collectively have a significant and positive influence on employee work behaviour which explains a substantial proportion of change in the innovative work behaviour. Thus, all the proposed hypothesis were supported and accepted.

The study contributes to the human resource management and innovative literature by providing the evidence on the role of high performance work practices which fastening employee innovation with in industrial context. Further, findings suggest the organization can enhance innovative work behaviour by implementing the fair reward system, investing in the continuous training programs and promoting employee participation in the decision making process.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18732551