Abstract
A 30-item version of the Perceived Support for Innovation scale was completed by 30 employees from an engineering firm judged to be ‘innovative’ by local businesspersons and 30 from a similar firm judged to be ‘noninnovative’ by these persons. Employees from the innovative firm obtained significantly higher mean scores than those from the noninnovative firm on each of the five subscales. Factor analysis of the responses of the two groups of employees both yielded a single general factor, rather than the five separate factors posited by the scale developers. Significant positive relationships were found between the scores on Perceived Support for Innovation and, respectively, job satisfaction, work motivation, and job involvement. These results are interpreted as providing some support for the validity of the inventory, beyond the school setting in which it was developed.
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