Leader strategies for motivating innovation in individuals: a systematic review

Abstract

Innovation is a topic of intense interest and is seen as key to confronting the vast majority of issues facing humanity. To consolidate the knowledge about approaches promoting innovation, this study conducted a systematic review integrating an alldatabase (n = 375) search through EBSCOhost completed on April 6th, 2019 in addition to search engine use. Three hundred three studies were full-text reviewed yielding 82 final studies eligible for the inclusion in findings extraction. The findings were synthesized and then organized into the Expectancy-value-cost (EVC) motivation framework to isolate promotive and hindering factors. It is clear that there is an unbalanced primacy in the innovation literature in favor of business and corporate settings with very little representation from the arts or social justice sectors. There is also a common trend of using surveys of individuals in organizations within a single discipline, while interviews are rare. The paucity of studying costs of innovation in the literature is symptomatic of the primarily positive psychology approach taken by studies, rather than a framework like EVC which also considers detractive factors like costs. Numerous studies provide support for the notion that more internal motivations like intrinsic (e.g., interest) and attainment (e.g., importance, fulfillment) were more influential than external motivators like rewards as targets of strategies. Leaders should focus, whenever possible, on topics that engaged curiosity, interest, and satisfaction and, if they choose to use rewards, should focus their strategies to give related rewards; otherwise, they risk sundering the internal motivation to innovate for already interested workers.

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“…Another limitation of this article would be the lack of systematic review, which future studies can employ (including PRISMA methods) to further explore the topic. Fortunately, several studies have recently used systematic reviews such as bibliometric analysis of management and social science research in general [179][180][181][182][183][184][185] and COVID-19 research in particular [186][187][188]. However, as what we know about the effects of COVID-19 is still limited, and there are growing studies on the effects of COVID-19 on employees, organizations, and countries, future studies may use a systematic review approach such as the PRISMA method to choose a literature search based on a research question in a particular time period.…”

Expectancies, Values, and Costs of Innovating Identified by Canadian Innovators: A Motivational Basis for Supporting Innovation Talent Development

“…The scales were developed and heavily modified from a mix of novel and previously validated items. Items were isolated from the findings of a literature review of reported motivations for innovative behavior (Soleas, in review). Items were then cyclically reviewed in interviews with think-aloud protocols with noninterviewed innovators to help ensure item coherence (Jääskeläinen, 2010; van Someren et al, 1994).…”

Assessing the Effect of Endogenous Culture, Local Resources, Eco-Friendly Environment and Modern Strategy Development on Entrepreneurial Development

“…Indigenous leadership faced challenging conditions such as seeking external resources, avoiding incoming problems that enables entrepreneurs to influence physical, human or institutional and capital innovatively. Indigenous Leaders basically pursued innovation to ensure that a variety of employees and resources to bear on a given challenge that support and lead entrepreneurs (Soleas, 2020). Hence, indigenous leadership culture has significant contribution and influence in solving problems occurred in local resource utilization and enhance innovation activities that build entrepreneurial movement.…”

“…Culturally diverse work team is subject to many issues like language, norms, and communication that affect team performance (Cherian & Gaikar, 2020). Effective team working culturally, served as a strategy for promoting innovative entrepreneur through building confidence and promote knowledge exchange to increase innovation (Soleas, 2020). Team workforces with the same indigenous culture perform efficiently and more motivated to work for making their firm productive that encourage entrepreneurial development.…”