Employees' attitudes towards innovation in workplace: an examination of the impacts of new technology on multinational corporations (MNCs)

Abstract

Most scholars hold the view that organisations cannot survive in the ever changing and turbulent environment in which they operate without human resource. The reason being that employees' attitudes can have adverse effects on the achievement and the realisation of the strategic goals of MNCs and eventual failure of its mission when a new technology is introduced without proper cognisance of the attitudes of employees to innovation. Against this background, this article adopts the tricomponent theory of attitudes and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to explain employees' attitudes towards innovation in workplace, and examines the impact of new technology on MNCs. Consequently, the article recommends among others, green-HRM management processes.