Innovative Behaviors in the Wake of Vitality

Organizations are always trying to gain a competitive position in their life. It is required from employees of these organizations just being more energetic than ever before for transforming their dreams and knowledge into the innovative products. Innovative behavior arisen from creativity. Creativity is the first step of innovation and employees’ capability for creativity won’t be optimized without energy. The positive feeling of having energy generally defined as vitality. Vitality is studied in a few researches under the organizational context. In the perspective of employees, vitality is defined as “a dynamic phenomenon, relevant to both mental and physical appearance of operating”. Vitality of employees probably makes them to exhibit innovative behavior. It is easy to see the relation between vitality and innovation, but the difficult question to answer is to describe and analyze what vitality means for innovative behavior. Therefore, the aim of this study is trying to answer this hard question by examining vitality behind innovative behavior under the proposal of “the more people experience vitality the more they present innovative behavior”.