Employee-driven innovations (EDI) have gained traction in research and inform workplace practice to address the need in responding to dynamic economic environments, the imperative of enterprise viability and worker employability. A constellation of contextual factors has been posited to shape employee predisposition to EDI engagement. One key factor – the mindset of employees in relation to their initiation, enactment and maintenance of innovative practices in workplaces – has been identified as instrumental in igniting this process. The intent of this study is to elicit the antecedents and personal factors that foster growth mindsets and the pathways through which these factors shape EDI practices at work. Guided by Keating and Heslin’s (2015) framework on growth mindset in workplace engagement, findings from 40 interviews with employers and employees of four small to medium size enterprises, where work activities and foci are quite distinct, were examined to explore its applicability in the Singapore workplace.