Effect of Individual's Learning Organization on Knowledge Management and Innovative Behavior - Comparative Analysis on the Employees in Service, Production, and IT -

This is an empirical study analyzing the effects of individual's learning organization activity on knowledge management activity and innovative behavior. In this study, a survey was conducted on the employees of large business organizations in the fields of services, productions, and IT, and relationship between the variables among different industries was compared and analyzed. Among the terminologies used in this study, the innovative behavior indicates the following: seeking and developing new process or product ideas, obtaining necessary budget for executing the ideas, and establishing appropriate execution plan and developing schedule. In order to secure competitive advantage in this quickly advancing business environment, various methods should be used to promote innovations and organizational changes. The important antecedents of these innovative behaviors can be known as knowledge management activity and learning organization activity. As a result of this study, the individual learning organization activity was shown to have a significant effect on knowledge management activity and innovative behavior, in the fields of services, production, and IT. Also, the knowledge management activity had significant effect on the innovative behavior. According to the analysis by each group, the effect of individual learning organization activity on knowledge management activity was shown to be greatest in the field of production. Also, the effect of knowledge management activity on innovative behavior was shown to be greatest in the field of IT. Finally, the effect of individual learning organization activity on innovative behavior was shown to be greatest in the field of production. Based on the above analysis, this study examined the relationship between the differences and the variables of the effects of learning organization activity on employees of each field, and its causes were suggested.