Innovative organizational climate as a contributing factor to employees’ career potential

Abstract

The article reports the results of research that tested the hypothesis about a link between the barriers to career development and innovative organizational climate. The research focused on innovation potential from two perspectives: 1) as organizational openness and readiness to respond flexibly to changes and 2) as an environment supporting employee creativity. To test the hypotheses, we adapted and tested the Open Innovation Climate Measure (B. RemnelandWikhamn) and the Work Environment Inventory (T. M. Amabile) on a Russian sample of 273 people. We found a negative correlation between the manifestation of gender bias in the workplace and barriers to career development and the organizational climate of openness to innovation. In particular, the climate of openness to innovation is promoted through transparency in compensation, promotion, distribution of power and resources. Importantly, the translated and developed methodologies have sufficient consistency by Cronbach's alpha. The Russian language versions of the Open Innovation Climate Measure (OICM) and the Work Environment Inventory (WEI) (abridged) fill a gap in the tools for assessing organizational innovativeness and creativity.