RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOFT SKILLS, HARD SKILLS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CULTURE TOWARDS INDIVIDUAL INNOVATIVENESS IN STARTUPS COMPANIES IN INDONESIA

Abstract

Abstract. Background: Innovation has become important in every business, especially in startups companies. But not all startups can survive, there are also many startups fail, the common reason why startups failed because of lack in innovation (D’Cunha, 2017). Every business needs to make an innovation in order to have competitive advantage over competitors. In previous studies it has been shown between skills and innovation relationship, Hendarman & Cantner (2017) argued skills are essential for innovation to gain performance of companies. Organizational Learning Culture (OLC) is also consider to maintain innovative behavior. In previous literature many focus on firm level and still limited in individual level related skills and OLC. the author wants to explore the relationship between skills and organizational learning culture that emphasize in individual level in startups companies
Methods: Cross-sectional data of startups companies in Indonesia are used from an online questionnaire survey on startups employees perception related to skills and OLC to individual innovativeness. This survey conduct 281 employees from 65 startups companies in Jakarta and Bandung. Results: Soft skills, hard skills, and organizational learning culture have positive relationship with individual innovativeness in startups companies. Conclusions: To increase innovative in employees, the writer suggest to increase the performance employees in skills and building a better climate of organizational learning.

Keywords: Soft Skills, Hard Skills, Organizational Learning Culture, Individual Innovativeness, Startups Companies.