Innovation and Leadership in the Public Sector

8How Staff Having Specific Employment Characteristics Perceive Workplace Innovation Related to Public Sector Culture

DOI: 10.4324/9781003191131-9

Introduction

This chapter identifies and outlines how staff with specific employment characteristics in a public sector organisation were found to have different perspectives of organisational culture and workplace innovation. The research confirms that employees exhibit significant differences between various groups in how culture impacts on workplace innovation. These findings provide insights into the characteristics of the public sector workplace. The characteristics studied were working tenure, job type, work group, work role and workplace flexibility. The role of different levels of managers ...