The factors influencing innovative performance among Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Terengganu staff / Ramizatunnisah Jais

The purpose of this paper is to identify internal factors in an organization that influence the innovative performance of staff in Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Terengganu (UiTMCT). The factors that were analyzed are self-leadership, work group support, supervisor support, organizational support and natural reward meanwhile the outcome that is being measured is innovative performance. A questionnaire was distributed to 250 of the staff and the data obtained was analyzed by using IBM (SPSS). The results were then analyzed by using reliability analysis, frequency analysis, descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. Those analyses showed that all five factors have a significant relationship with the staffs innovative performance. Thus, the hypothesis rejected two other predictors; those are supervisor support and organization support. In addition, the outcome of this study also showed the level of innovation performance among the staff of UiTM Cawangan Terengganu. It is hoped that through this finding, the management can design a new approach to cultivate the culture of producing innovation among all levels of its staff in enabling UiTM Cawangan Terengganu to generate new creation for every department to improve its efficiency and at the same time to reduce any unnecessary cost being spent by utilizing existing resources.