Do creativity techniques enhances employees soft skills?

Soft Skills and Creativity in IS Professionals

Although the soft (i.e. non-technical) skills of information systems (I/S) professionals are recognized as important for job performance, few attempts have been made to study systematically the concept of soft skills. We draw upon the pioneering work in the area of practical intelligence and creativity at the workplace to develop the concept of soft skills and to validate an instrument to asses...

Employees’ Skills and Organisational Commitment

Based on the survey Organisation, Learning and Competencies, the paper explores the relationship between skills development and organisational commitment. The findings, in general, suggest a low correlation between skills and more involvement in the organisations. Particularly, professionals show more attachment to their jobs than to their organisations, confirming that job commitment does not ...

When Do Employees Become Entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneurs often get their ideas from working as employees in established firms. However, employees with ideas can also become intrapreneurs, or even managers of corporate spin-offs. This paper shows how innovation and entrepreneurship are influenced by company policies. Using a multi-task incentives model, we identify a trade-off between focussing employees on their assigned tasks, versus e...

The Contributions of Different Groups of Individuals to Employees’ Creativity

Defining Creativity: Finding Keywords for Creativity Using Corpus Linguistics Techniques

A computational system that evaluates creativity needs guidance on what creativity actually is. It is by no means straightforward to provide a computer with a formal definition of creativity; no such definition yet exists and viewpoints in creativity literature vary as to what the key components of creativity are considered to be. This work combines several viewpoints for a more general consens...