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The Impact of Innovative Working Behaviour on Employees’ Working Performance

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The aim of this chapter is to identify the relationship and the impact of innovative working behaviour (IWB) of employees on their performance. With innovative working behaviour, we are trying to analyse the initiative taken from employees for improving work and the effects over working performance (WP). Employees with a higher level of innovative behaviour are expected to be star performers in their working place. An organisation needs to increase the awareness of the importance of innovative working behaviour of their employee in working activity. The sample includes 214 respondents from the private and public sector in Macedonia. Based on our findings, we provide some useful recommendation to organisations to raise the awareness of innovation that comes from employee side. The chapter ends with study limitations and future research directions.

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    Based on Prespa Agreement, reached on June 17, 2018, by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Macedonian counterpart, Zoran Zaev, the Republic of Macedonia should change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia. At the moment when this chapter was submitted to the editors/publisher (Friday, January 11, 2019), the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia with 81 votes approved and passed all amendments to the constitution to rename the country to Republic of North Macedonia. Now this agreement should be approved by the Greek Parliament in order to be effective.

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  1. South East European University, Tetovo, North Macedonia

    Besar Berisha & Veland Ramadani

  2. American University of Middle East, Kuwait, Kuwait

    Shqipe Gërguri-Rashiti

  3. International University of Sarajevo (IUS), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Ramo Palalić

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  3. Faculty of Business and Economics, South-East European University, Tetovo, North Macedonia

    Veland Ramadani

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Berisha, B., Ramadani, V., Gërguri-Rashiti, S., Palalić, R. (2020). The Impact of Innovative Working Behaviour on Employees’ Working Performance. In: Leitão, J., Nunes, A., Pereira, D., Ramadani, V. (eds) Intrapreneurship and Sustainable Human Capital. Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49410-0_3

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