Promoting technology innovation performance through high involvement HRM, technology adaptation and innovativeness
Business Process Management Journal
ISSN: 1463-7154
Article publication date: 1 June 2023
Issue publication date: 4 August 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to examine how high involvement HRM (HIHRM), technology adaptation and innovativeness influence employees to respond to technology innovation performance – that is, radical innovation performance and incremental innovation performance – in distinct ways.
Design/methodology/approach
The purposive judgmental sample technique is used to assess the perceptions of 545 IT employees in Bangladesh's ready-made garment (RMG) industry. The partial least square-structural equation modeling (SEM-PLS) method is applied to analyze and interpret the data.
Findings
Findings of the analysis show that HIHRM, technology adaptation and innovativeness influence employees to exhibit technology innovation performance. Furthermore, both technology adaptation and innovativeness show the significant mediating effects between HIHRM and technology innovation performance.
Practical implications
First, this study’s findings contribute to HIHRM and technology innovation performance within the context of the resource-based theory. Second, the RMG organizations would acknowledge the role of HIHRM on employee technology adaptability and innovation capability in this regard. A future study might point to the models' ability to create the best work environments, which can help organizations to boost employee productivity through adaptation and innovation.
Originality/value
The study would offer a distinctive perspective on higher-order HIHRM and how they affect IT employees in RMG organizations in Bangladesh that could be approached in other labor-intensive and developing nations. This study also expands the research on technology adaptation and innovativeness by exploring the mediating roles between HIHRM and employee technology innovation performance in the organization.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
Citation
Rubel, M.R.B., Kee, D.M.H. and Rimi, N.N. (2023), "Promoting technology innovation performance through high involvement HRM, technology adaptation and innovativeness", Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 29 No. 5, pp. 1277-1302. https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-10-2022-0526
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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