Abstract

Public schools in Taiwan are bureaucratic organizations. Funds, personnel matters or regulations in private schools are more flexible. Some literatures indicate that bureaucratic organization would not lead to organizational innovation. This article selects 375 teachers in 25 public and private technical institutes and universities in Taiwan as the targets and conducts questionnaire survey. There are 335 valid questionnaires returned and valid return rate is 89.3%. The result shows that public and private schools are not the influenced factors on organizational innovation performance of the schools. Through simple regression analysis, support leadership, creative organization culture and organizational learning would positively influence organizational innovation performance of the schools. However, the result of hierarchical regression analysis demonstrates the influence of support leadership on organizational innovation performance of the schools. Creative organization culture reveals partially mediating effect. The influence of support leadership on organizational innovation performance of the schools is based on two mediating variables (organizational learning and creative organization culture). Thus, organizational innovation performance of the schools is unrelated to school attributes; instead, it is associated with creative organization culture and organizational learning.

Key words: Organizational innovation, creative organization culture, organizational learning, bureaucratic organizations, technical institute, university.