Issue 3, 2014

Alsufyev A. I. , Zavyalova E. K. Personnel Training and Development Practices as a Driver of Innovative Organization Development.

The current paper explores the relationship between personnel training and development practices and innovation activity of companies. The analysis is based on the concept of learning organization. The results of empirical study allow to suggest that not all personnel training practice are positively related to the innovation activity of companies. We identified two groups of indicators that are positively correlated with innovation activity — they include contemporary training practices and characteristics of organizational climate. Based on these results the conceptual model of the relationship between training and development practices and innovation activity was designed. The model includes factors associated with training and development practices affecting or innovation or influencing the relationship between innovation results and training. It is important to emphasis the complex character of the model: innovations are stimulated not by individual factors or practices, but are the results of the joint efforts. Keywords: personnel training and development, innovation activity, organizational climate.

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