The Impact of Self-Efficacy, Growth Mindset, Empowerment and Training on Employees’ Innovation Capability: A Conceptual Framework

Abstract

Under the circumstances of fierce competition brought by fast technological
development, employee innovation capability as a determinant of an organization’s
performance, plays a significant role in developing new products, improving quality
and gaining a competitive advantage. This is a conceptual paper to study the factors that
influence employees’ innovation capacities based on the analysis and knowledge
obtained from relevant literature, focusing on self-efficacy, growth mindset,
empowerment and training. Self-efficacy and growth mindsets are psychological
factors to reflect individual differencesin perceiving their innovation capabilities, while
empowerment and training are organizational factors that are likely to be positively
related to employees’innovation capacity. Although the paper is narrative or descriptive
in nature and non-statistical, it is conducive to inspiring a better comprehension of
employees’ innovation capacity