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Age Diversity and Organizational Innovation: The Effects of Innovation Types and the Moderating Role of Organizational Culture

연령 다양성과 혁신성과 간 관계: 혁신 유형에 따른 효과와 조직문화의 조절효과를 중심으로

  • Park, Jisung (College of Business and Economics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Shin, Soo Young (Department of Business Administration, Yeungnam University)
  • Received : 2019.06.05
  • Accepted : 2019.08.02
  • Published : 2019.08.31
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Abstract

Even though current firms achieve organizational innovation with diverse workforce, previous studies on the relationship between workforce diversity and firm innovation revealed mixed results. To explain these inconsistent findings, this study examines the contradictory aspects of diversity, and divides innovative performance as exploitative and exploratory innovation. In particular, the main focus of this study is age diversity and firm innovation, since most Korean firms suffer from inter-generational conflicts. In addition, this study explores the moderating role of cohesive and innovative culture as the strong norms within the organization. The HCCP data was used to test these hypotheses. As predicted, age diversity negatively influences exploitative innovation, and positively affects exploratory innovation. However, the moderating role of cohesive culture was not statistically significant. Conversely, innovative culture strengthens the positive relationship between them.

오늘날 기업은 다양한 인력 구성을 바탕으로 조직혁신을 달성해야 함에도 불구하고, 기존 인력 다양성과 조직혁신 논의에 따르면 혼재된 실증 결과가 나타난다. 이에 본 연구에서는 이를 설명하기 위해 인력 다양성이 갖는 양면적 성격에 대해 논의한 뒤 혁신성과를 두 가지 혁신 유형인 활용적 혁신과 탐험적 혁신으로 구분하여 살펴본다. 특히 한국 기업에서 다양성 이슈가 가장 극명하게 나타나는 연령 다양성에 주목하여 살펴보고자 한다. 또한, 조직 구성원들에게 강력한 영향을 미치는 사회적 기제인 조직문화가 연령 다양성이 혁신성과 유형에 미치는 주효과를 어떻게 조절하는지 역시 추가적으로 검증하고자 하며, 특히 혁신적 조직문화와 응집적 조직문화를 중심으로 살펴본다. 인적자본데이터로 분석한 결과, 연령 다양성은 활용적 혁신에는 부(-)의 영향을, 탐험적 혁신에는 정(+)의 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 연령 다양성과 탐험적 혁신 간 정(+)의 관계는 강화시키는 것으로 나타났으나, 응집적 조직문화가 연령 다양성과 활용적 혁신 간 부(-)의 관계를 약화시키는 것으로 예측한 가설은 통계적으로 유의하게 나타났지 않았다.

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