Human management and its relationship with product innovation in Boyacá manufacturing companies
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https://doi.org/10.17981/econcuc.43.2.2022.Org.2Keywords:
Scientific innovation, Organizational culture, Management, Basic productAbstract
The objective of this article is to show the effects of the impact of human management on the product innovation strategy of small companies in the industrial corridor of Boyacá (Colombia). It was developed with the partici-pation of 17 manufacturing companies concentrated in three cities of Boy-acá, Colombia, through descriptive research with a qualitative approach through the application of interviews and a Likert scale questionnaire, the data was processed with the help of the SPSS software for quantitative data and Atlas Ti for qualitative data. The study reveals the clarity that manag-ers and heads of human resources have about the importance of applying good human management practices in favor of improving innovation, show-ing the factor associated with economic conditions as the main difficulty, while that of the corporate culture as rooted in orthodox recruitment and selection methods, in addition to being the greatest limitation for innova-tion to really contribute to the growth of organizations.
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