Culture of Workplace Innovation and the role of Employees’ demographic variables in Knowledge Based Organizations (KBOs) with reference to IT and ITeS companies in National Capital Region (NCR) of India

In the wake of recent business competition, the national and international competition is leading organizations to continuously search alternatives to improve their organizational effectiveness. The mounting pressure on companies to develop latest technologies and survival menace requires adequate resource, creative employees and innovative ideas. The urge to be ahead, the firms must come up with new ideas and followed by appropriate actions that could develop a culture at workplace in which employees are self-directed and motivated towards achieving innovation by developing innovative ideas constantly and meanwhile employees are engaged and performing their jobs in the amicably and the employees are coming to the work with a believe that they can contribute to the organization by developing new ideas. Much research has been done to elaborate why some organizations are capable to do more innovations than the other organizations. The literature of previous works deals with ways to encourage creativity and innovation in the workplace and discuss many influential factors that affects employees’ innovativeness or innovative behavior but not fully documented the specific role of workplace innovation to encourage employees’ creativity and developing employee innovative behavior.