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To encourage innovation, companies have been experimenting with ways of giving employees time and support to pursue new ideas. One way is by allowing them to spend one day a week without pressure from their jobs. Another is by providing extra technology that allows them to explore opportunities outside of their job requirements. The third way is by offering expert guidance for developing and implementing those ideas.
Innovation is critical for a company’s growth. Employee type, as well as employee expertise and self-professed innovativeness, affect the innovation potential of employees. A manager must motivate his or her employees to be innovative in order to get the most out of them. There are four types of employees: intrinsically driven, extrinsically motivated, externally inspired and internally motivated. Leaders need to tailor slack resources based on each employee type in order to maximize their creativity and innovation potentials.
Highly skilled and innovative employees are vital to any organization. Managers can boost their intrinsic motivation by giving them freedom to innovate, as well as providing the resources they need to do so.
High expertise employees are difficult to motivate extrinsically, but managers can stimulate their intrinsic motivation by providing supplementary tools and a “safe place to play.” Low expertise employees are hard to motivate intrinsically because they don’t have enough on-the-job experience. However, employers should nurture their intrinsic drive to explore by creating an environment that encourages exploration and experimentation. Employees who lack confidence in their creative abilities should be encouraged to tinker with new technology.
