Management Practice Insights
DOI: 10.59571/mpi.v1i2.3
Year: 2023, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 36-40
Original Article
Mihir Ajgaonkar, Tanvi Mankodi
Associate Professor in SPJIMR’s Organisation & Leadership Studies department
Assistant Professor in SPJIMR’s Organisation & Leadership Studies department and leads the Teaching Excellence & Teaching Development initiative
Correspondence:
Received Date:12 May 2023, Accepted Date:01 September 2023, Published Date:12 October 2023
Problem of practice: An innovative organization is likely to have a competitive edge. To become an innovative organization, culture and leadership are crucial factors, but also hard to pin down. What type of organizational culture can lead to innovation? Which of the several possible leadership styles can foster innovation in your team and in the broader organization? In our essay, we synthesize two research studies – the first study by Li and team pinpoints how a culture of inclusion helps to stimulate innovation – both radical and incremental.1 The second study by Bracht and team helps to identify which forms of leadership are best for fostering innovative behavior among your team members and followers2
1 Yixuan Li et al., “From Inclusive Climate to Organizational Innovation: Examining Internal and External Enablers for Knowledge Management Capacity,” Journal of Applied Psychology 107, no. 12 (2022): 2285–2305, https:// doi.org/10.1037/apl0001014.
2 “Innovation across Cultures: Connecting Leadership, Identification, and Creative Behavior in Organizations - Bracht - 2023 - Applied Psychology - Wiley Online Library,” accessed August 4, 2023, https://iaap-journals. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apps.12381.
3 “In Action | Adobe Diversity and Inclusion,” September 12, 2019, https:// www.adobe.com/diversity/adobe-for-all-in-action.html.
4 Carolina Milanesi, “Adobe’s Brian Miller Talks Diversity, Leadership – And The Importance Of Talent Development,” Forbes, February 2, 2022, https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinamilanesi/2022/02/02/adobes-brian-miller- talks-diversity-leadership--and-the-importance-of-talent-development/.
5 Global Data, “Adobe: Workforce Diversity and Inclusion in 2021,” ESG, July 2022, https://www.linkedin.com/company/globaldataplc/.
6 Laszlo Bock, “Getting to Work on Diversity at Google,” Google (blog), May 28, 2014, https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/diversity/getting-to-workon- diversity-at-google/.
7 “Diversity Annual Report - Google Diversity Equity & Inclusion” (California, USA: Google, May 19, 2022), https://about.google/belonging/diversity- annual-report/2022/.
8 Shamolie Oberoi, “Diversity In The Workplace — 5 Indian Companies With Inclusive Hiring Policies,” Homegrown (blog), June 8, 2021, https:// homegrown.co.in/homegrown-explore/diversity-in-the-workplace-5-indian- companies-with-inclusive-hiring-policies.
9 Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (London: Little, Brown, 2011), p.145.
10 Owen Linzmayer, “Apple Confidential 2.0,” 2004, 340. p. 197, 291, 294
11 Laura Ross, “Lessons from Leaders: Jørgen Vig Knudstorp,” September 14, 2021, https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/lessons-from-leaders-j-rgen-vigknudstorp/.
12 Johnny Davis, “How Lego Clicked: The Super Brand That Reinvented Itself,” The Observer, June 4, 2017, sec. Life and style, https://www.theguardian. com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/04/how-lego-clicked-the-super-brand-thatreinvented- itself.
13 Mohammad Bilal, “Insecurity, Long Hours, False Promises: A Byju’s Ex-Employee Spills the Beans on Its Toxic Work Culture,” December 20, 2022, https://www.dailyo.in/news/job-insecurity-false-promises-long-working- hours-why-byjus-work-culture-is-problematic-38288. 14 R. Gopalakrishnan, How Anil Naik Built L&T’s Remarkable Growth Trajectory, Shapers of Business Institutions 2 (New Delhi: Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2020).
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