Effect of organi̇zati̇onal culture on innovation and a research

ABSTRACT The concept of innovation, which can be expressed as converting an information or an idea into an output by creating an added value from them, has currently become one of the popular concepts drawing attention in the fields of management and organi-zation. In today's business world, we see that the organizations widen their innovations and investments depending on innovation. The brief description of the organizational culture is a common attitude, behavior and belief of employees in an organization. Or-ganizational culture is important in terms of preparing the media for innovation searches in the organization, promoting these searches or preventing them. The study which shaped according to the effect of organizational culture on innova-tion and as a research consists of three main parts. In the first part, it is focused on organi-zational culture. After the explanations of the concepts of culture, organization and organ-izational culture, basic elements of organizational culture, organizational key factors that make up the culture, the importance of organizational culture, classifications related and organizational culture are included based on the researches done on the subject. The second part deals with the subject of innovation, after explaining concepts re-lated to innovation, the innovation types and models arising in the organization are ex-amined. This part finally deals with the source of the activities of the innovation factors in organizations, these factors are described scientifically. In the last part of the study which is the application part; in addition to determin-ing the type of organization that dominates the organization, it is aimed to determine the impact of the dimensions of participation, consistency, coherence and vision of organi-zational culture on the innovation of products, processes, strategy and market. In this context, a survey for 245 organization managers in the industrial zone of the Gaziantep province was made to investigate which organizational culture dimension encourages or prevent innovation activities. As a result of the research, the positive effects found out are given respectively. Participation, coherence and consistency on process innovation; the organizational culture dimensions of vision and participation on product innovation; the dimension of coherence on market innovation and the dimensions of participation and coherence on strategy innovation have positive effects. Key Words: Organizational culture, the classification of organizational culture, the dimensions of organizational culture, innovation, types of innovation