Perbedaan Kreativitas dan Perilaku Kerja Inovatif pada Perusahaan Manufaktur yang Menerapkan Kaizen dan yang Tidak Menerapkan Kaizen

Abstract

The pupose of this study is to examine the difference of creativity and employee's innovative working behavior in manufacturing firms that apply kaizen and those that do not apply kaizen. Population in this study are employees and staff who working at manufacturing company in Batamindo Industrial Park Muka kuning, Batam. The study is using primer data obtained from the questionnaire. In addition, the sample of this study are employee who is active working with the number of samples as many as 100 employees. In addition, the sampling technique using purposive technique sampling where sampling is based on certain criteria. Technic of processing data using the software IBM SPSS 20. Hypothesis test is done by using paired samples t-test analysis by software IBM SPSS 20. Moreover, the results of this study indicate that there are differences in creativity and innovative working behavior in companies that apply kaizen and those that do not apply kaizen. Kaizen is able to increase effectivity and also efficiency on operational process in a company. In conclusion, study for further are suggested to increase the number of samples and to use different data collection techniques, and also this study can be apply in another firm such as service firm, IT firm, and etc.