Pages: 52-57

Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between managers’ risk ability and organizational innovation in port headquarters and maritime of Hormozgan. Methodology of this study is descriptive – correlational type and statistics population of this study includes all of employees (700 people) and managers (46 people) of port headquarters and maritime of Hormozgan that statistical sampling was used for managers and simple random was used for employees. Organizational innovation questionnaire with reliability of 0/96 and viability of 0/89 and risk ability with reliability of 0/89 and viability of 0/89 were used to collect data. Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficient and multi-variation regression were used. Results showed that there is a direct and meaningful relationship between managers’ risk ability and organizational innovation in port headquarters and maritime of Hormozgan. There is a direct and meaningful relationship between understood risk and relational risk of managers and organizational innovation. Relational risk of managers is the most important predictor of organizational innovation.