Skill Development and Organizational Innovativeness of Selected Food and Beverage Firms in Port Harcourt

Abstract

This study was conducted to empirically establish the relationship between skill development and two measures of organizational innovativeness, namely: product and marketing innovativeness. As a descriptive statistics using quantitative approach, two null hypotheses were formulated for the study. The spearman rank order correlation coefficient was used to test the hypotheses with the aid of statistical package for social science software. The findings indicated a strong relationship between skill development and the two measures of organizational innovativeness. It was therefore concluded that the stock of human skill actually influences the capacity of innovation induction in the organization. Consequently, it was recommended that organizations should continuously upgrade their human skills as a competitive strategy and to drive their innovativeness.