A Study: How Do Innovation and Effectiveness Correlate with the Employees' Performance?

1 Abstract: Being qualitative-evaluative in terms of data collection, this study is meant to explore and inspect the correlation between innovation and effectiveness and the employees' performance at Iranian chipboard production industries in Gulistan province. After reviewing the related literature, parameters and factors affecting the correlation between innovation and effectiveness and the employees' performance were identified and extracted and then using a questionnaire prepared by the researcher the parameters extracted from the theoretical fundamentals were listed based on an initial framework. All employees of chipboard industries with a total number of 360 make the statistical population of the study, among which some 186 people were determined as samples using Krejcie and Morgan table. The results showed that there is a strong correlation between effectiveness and the employees' performance and a poor one between innovation and the employees' performance.