A study on the effect of organizational culture of food service company on innovative behavior of cooks

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine what factors related to the organizational culture influence cooks’ innovative behavior in food service company and whether organizational culture influence innovative behavior provide materials needed to devise plans for improving cooks’ innovative behavior and organizational commitment in food service company.To address the goal, to collect data to explain the purpose of this study, this researcher conducted a survey to cooks working for family restaurants located in Gwangju or Jeonnam. Total 300 questionnaire sheets were distributed, and used 259 (86%) practically for analysis. Empirical analysis to achieve the purpose of this study was conducted with valid samples through collected questionnaire survey and SPSS Ver.21 and frequency analysis, reliability analysis, factorial analysis and multiple regression analysis were conducted. The results of positive analysis can be summed up as below: First, according to the results of conducting reliability and validity analysis on the units of research, organizational culture types have high reliability on innovative behavior. Also, according to the results of verifying construct validity through exploratory factor analysis, each of the research units is found to have enough construct validity. According to the results of conducting exploratory factor analysis, there are 4 factors found as organizational culture types, ‘consensus culture’, ‘development culture’, ‘hierarchical culture’, and ‘rational culture’. Innovative behavior is used as a single factor. Second, according to the results of verifying hypothesis that organizational commitment will influence innovative behavior significantly, organizational commitment is found to have positively significant effects on innovative behavior. Food service companies may consider the plan to pay reasonable compensation, when the performance target is achieved by innovative behavior.