The effect of employee satisfaction on creating innovative ideas in businesses

The main aim of this study is to analyze the positive and negative factors affecting employee satisfaction in enterprises and to analyze the effects of employees on creating innovative ideas with the weakest and the strongest links in the integrated process. Within this framework, the conceptual framework in the theoretical section, employee satisfaction and innovation in enterprises are examined in the literature. This research has been conducted with the employees of two private institutions working in the food sector in the year of December 2015. In this study the evaluation and opinions about the satisfaction of the employees and their applications about the production of innovative ideas has been asked. A survey was conducted on 93 active participants in these institutions and the data obtained were analyzed in the SPSS 20.0 program and the findings were interpreted. In the survey, 49 out of 80 white-collar workers in the A-institution in Turkey participated in the survey, and 44 out of 145 white-collar employees in the B-organization were randomly selected through simple sampling. At the end of the research, it was found that the level of the relationship between the employee satisfaction and the production of innovative ideas was generally inadequate except for a few cases. Findings of work; while there is dissatisfaction with pay, it has been seen that the level of satisfaction is high because employees think that they have the knowledge and skills of the work they do. For innovation activities; employees and managers have written and oral innovation ideas and projects in the last three years. From the point of view of the institution to produce innovative ideas, while the lowest average is the time given to employees to work in their own projects; while the highest average is the ease with which employees of the institutional culture can bring out new ideas. Finally it is found that employees are eager to produce innovative ideas. Key words: Employee Satisfaction, Motivation, Innovation, Innovative Ideas.