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Men vs Women Innovative Work Behaviour in the Workplace
Ng Kar Yan
Supervisor: Dr. Nik Hazimah Nik Mat
Bachelor of Management (Marketing)
School of Business and Maritime Management
The competitive environment has force organizations to demand for innovative
employees who seem to be the key of success to any organization. As the workplace
consist of men and women who are different from one another in many aspects, they are
the main focus of this study for their differences that result in gender gap and the
measurement of their differences in innovative work behaviour (IWB). Job demandsresources
model is used in this research as it affects the innovative work behaviour of an
employee. The data are collected from the workplace of a government and private
Malaysian higher education institution using in-depth interviews and are analysed using
content and thematic analysis. The findings shows gender gap is unlikely to occur among
the academicians although the differences prevail. Besides, gender of the academician
has no significant effect on IWB but there are other factors that subsist which will be
further discussed in this thesis.
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