The Influence of Academic Culture and Task Commitment Toward Lecturers’ Innovativeness

This study aims to investigate the academic culture and task commitment toward lecturers' innovativeness. Quantitative survey methods were adopted. To collecting the data, a questionnaire and path analysis were used. Two hundred fifteen lecturers at several universities in Jakarta (Indonesia) participated in the study. The results indicate that many academic cultures positively give direct influences to lecturers' innovativeness, and task commitment positively gives direct influences to lecturers' innovativeness. The study concludes that training and mastery of the use of media are needed to improve the competence and innovation of lecturers in conducting scientific research.