Abstract:
The objective of this study clarifies the issue of whether innovation capability has
positive effect on individual job performance of insurance companies' employees in
Batticaioa district. Meanwhile individual job performance in the organization is very
crucial because achievement of organizational goals and objectives can be assessed
by the performance of human resources. Even though there ale sevelal factors
deciding the level of individuai job performance, innovation capability takes on
important place in the modern otganizattonal trends' Hence, this study focuses on
innovation capability in achieving employee's performance of insurance companies
in Batticaloa district. Thus, the study objectives are to identify the level of innovation
capability and individual job performance, the factors that positively influence the
insurance companies' employees in Batticaloa district, to identify the relationship
between innovation capability and individual job performance' and to identify the
effect of innovation capability on in<lividual job performance of insurance companies
in Batticaloa district. In order to achieve the objectives of the study' researcher has
collected data from 152 employees by using question-naire based survey method'
Further, this study has found that there are some positive factors such as participatory
ieadership culture, ideation & organizing structures, work climate and wellbeing'
know-how development, regeneration, external knowledge, individual activity of
insurance companies' empioyees in Batticaloa district' Simple random sampling
method was used. The statistical tools that used to analyze the levels of variables are
mean and SD values, while relationship was measured by Pearson coefficients and
simple regressions for influences dependent and independent variables' Finding have
shown innovation capability and individual job performance are at a higher level'
Moreover, it was also found that there is a positive relationship between innovation
capabiiity and individual job performance, and innovation capability significantly
influences individual job performance of the insurance companies in Batticaloa
district. These findings could contribute to the insurance companies and other
financial organizations to improve the level of innovation capability to have the
improvement in individual job performance, which leads to overall improvement of
or garizalional Performanc e'
