Employee Ability to Innovate: How Can Organizations Recognize It

Searching through the relevant literature, this paper identifies and explains the process behind many of the available instruments that may predict one's personality for producing innovation. Based on the research and scholarly journal entries, the types of personalities that are more prone to be innovative are also introduced. The qualities of an innovative person are then compared with the results from these various tests so that the foundational question of this paper is answered: what type of person is most innovative? In the end, while the merit and certitude of these tests will be called into question, this paper, at the very least, explains the current rationale and processes behind assessing which type of personality is best suitable for innovation. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.