The purpose of this research is to figure out the impact of diversity towards innovative
work behaviour in the workplace. Specifically, from TOYOTA NASMOCO Slamet Riyadi
Solo and PT AAM DEXA Yogyakarta. This research aims to see how diversity (visible
dissimilarity and cognitive group diversity) affecting individuals in being innovative, to see if
there is a significance relation between both variables. Looking at how diverse a workplace
is, this study tries to conduct its research in an Indonesian company, to see if diversity also
applies and affecting companies and workplace in terms of being innovative.
This research conducts a quantitative method, resulting statistical form output. Data
collection itself requires minimum 30 people from each company, taken randomly by also
rendering to its representative that respondents should be a full-time worker and are not under
tight Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) where innovative work behaviour almost
impossible to be done. The result of this research is indicating that one type of diversity
(cognitive group diversity) does affect innovative work behaviour in a positive way while the
other factor (visible dissimilarities) is proven to not cause any effect towards innovative work
behaviour.