Identifying innovators in the workplace

The current global financial crisis has compelled unprecedented levels of organisational change. Such change requires innovation" a capacity to adapt ideas, products or processes for improved practice.. The Instinctive Drives System® is a validated and reliable tool that measures four drives believed to influence cognition and behaviour. One of these (improvisation) describes the potential to identify possibility in seemingly impossible situations, and as such, is of particular interest when attempting to understand the capacity for innovation. Responses from a large dataset demonstrate that personnel in upper management had a stronger drive to improvise than lower level managers. This finding suggests that personnel who hold upper management positions might be the vehicles moving teams towards organisational innovation.