Influence of Communication and Motivation to Team Innovation

Abstract

Teamwork become a trend of an effective method to deal with one project because it could gather people from different fields and consolidate their power to solve one problem. But some teams are not effective and cannot generate innovative solutions and great outcome, which waste resources on minimizing cost of improve innovation. Hence, it should find out what factors are key elements for team innovation. In this thesis, the author would focus on how communication and motivation impact on team innovation. This thesis combines and analyses some second hand questionary statistics data from different industries like hotel, tourist, medical and so on. According to these data, they show that communication have positive relationship to team innovation through team voice, team learning and team cohesion. In addition, intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation would have positive relationship to team innovation. This study is helpful to how to achieve team innovation and generate superior outcome.