The Role of Organizational Culture and Management Behavior in Organizational Innovation (Case study: Agricultural Extension Organization in Iran)

Today, one of the most serious challenges facing companies is achieving successful new ideas and knowing how to manage innovation for survival and growth. Although organizational innovativeness is a complicated phenomenon in which many organizational and environmental factors involve, this research has mainly focused on the two important factors including management behavior and organizational culture. The main purpose of the article was to explore how management behavior and organizational culture can affect organizational innovation in Agricultural Extension Organization (AEO). The study has used both correlation and descriptive-analytic methodologies. A sample of 215 employees (at least B.Sc. holders) (or experts) were randomly selected in AEO of Iran. The data was collected by using the questionnaire and processed within SPSS. The questionnaire as a research tool was initially developed based on an extensive review litrature and finalized after pre-testing and face validity by a team of experts. the data were collected through an interviewing team when using the uestionnaire. Results showed that despite importance of the two organizational factors; organizational culture and managerial behavior they were not supportive enough for facilitating suitable environment for organizational innovation in AEO. Moreover, a rather low level of organizational innovation was observed as well as positive relationships were found between organizational factors and organizational innovation. In order to change the organizational structure of AEO based on organizational innovation, it is recommended that informal organizational relationships should be encouraged; a decentralized planning system and participatory decision making need to be applied, and formal, hierarchical, and complicated control should be eliminated.

کلیدواژه ها:

Management behavior ، Organizational Culture ، Organizational Innovation ، Agricultural Extension Organization