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Major streams of government reform place a larger emphasis on improving the work environment in public organizations. As part of this movement, empowerment, and horizontal communication are regarded as key components, which convey democratic decision-making. In this aspect, the current study investigates how democratic communication yields positive results in employee-driven innovation and output innovation, drawing on the theories of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. The analysis results show that organizational democracy is positively and significantly related to both employee-driven and output innovation. It is implied that improvements in the organizational environment bring changes to the innovative behavior of the employees.

[ key words: organizational democracy, communication, innovation, employee-driven innovation, output innovation, work environment ]