The impact of organizational learning culture, workforce diversity and knowledge management on innovation and organization performance: A structural equation modeling approach

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Innovation is founded as a strong contributor to the formulation of competitive strategy and enhance organizational performance. Different organizations dropped drastically from the competition by not innovating their products and services. PURPOSE: To analyze the relationship of an organizational learning culture, workforce diversity and knowledge management with innovation and organizational performance, this topic is also has become an important topic in the field of management. With a few exceptions, however, the literature has focused on different business and small and medium-size enterprise, but this study intends to bridge this gap by testing the framework in educational institutes. METHODS: A quantitative research method is used to test the conceptual framework. The data was collected from Malaysian, and Thailand private sector universities; a closed-ended questionnaire was administrated to collect the data. Data is analyzed through statistical software SMART-PLS RESULTS: Findings of the study reveal that the exogenous variables knowledge management, organization learning culture, and workforce diversity has a significant and positive relationship with endogenous variable innovation and further innovation has a significant and positive association with organization performance. CONCLUSION: This study reveals that workforce diversity, knowledge management and organizational learning culture play a vital role to bring the innovation which further enhances the organization performance. Due to current pandemic COVID-19, educational institutes required more innovative process of teaching and operation, a learning culture, knowledge management systems and diverse workforce can play a vital role in the educational institute innovation process.

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