impact of innovation training on staffs’ innovativeness

impact of innovation training on staffs’ innovativeness

due to the astonishing growth of knowledge and technologies, industries require to train and develop their human resources’ capacity to be able to solve the complex problems of current organizations in innovative ways and design innovative products.

therefore, innovation training and creating new ideas play critical roles in improving the socioeconomic growth of countries all over the world and particularly in developing countries including iran. innovation growth and development in organizations improves the quality and quantity of services, reduces various costs, avoids waste of resources, decreases the bureaucracy, enhances the organization performance, efficiency and productivity as well as job satisfaction in employees (alirezai & tavalai, 2008).

in effect, the authors emphasized that successful organizations’ managers and employees are in a permanent competition to seek for creativity and innovation, and thinking becomes a habit and task for the organization’s work force. employees’ training methods have recently faced various challenges and problems such as unsatisfied customers, low motivated employees, insufficient results, heterogeneous work processes, high costs and low effectiveness (hadavandi, 2003). choosing the most effective training methods specifically for developing innovation capacity in staffs has turned to be one of the main challenges of organizations.