Assessment of Demographic Factors and Innovative Work Behavior : Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia

The current study examines the effects of demographic factors on the employees’ innovative work behavior. The effects were examined through an empirical study involving 316 employees of Ethiopian research institutes. The results reveal that the innovative work behavior of male employees is significantly better than that of the female employees in the institutions. Like that on the basis of educational background the results reveal that more educated employees have high innovative work behavior. In the case of employees’ experience, more experience employees have high innovative work behavior in the research institutes. The implication of the research result for the HR practitioners is that in order to develop and engage employees, a much more flexible approach is to be adopted