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Technology Based Ability and its Relationship with Organizational Innovation

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This research deals with studying effect of technology based abilities and its aspect on organizational innovation and evaluates the relationship between these 2 variables for better compatibility of service organizations with environment and society. In order to collect data upon determining validity and reliability, it was applied from technology ability questionnaire of Lal 2001 and organizational innovation questionnaire of Choupani et al 2012. Statistical universe of this research is all employees of water and sewage system organization, regional water organization and regional electricity company of Sistan and Balouchestan. The sampling method is based on classification i.e. employees with certificate of Associate Degree and higher were selected that upon distributing questionnaire, total number of 149 questionnaires were completed. Upon analyzing information and by using SPSS 19 and Lisrel software and regression statistical method and Spearman correlation coefficient method, it was determined that there is positive significant relationship between technology based ability and organizational innovation. In addition, there is positive significant relationship between technology based ability (investment ability, productive ability and communication ability) with organizational innovation.
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