purpose: this article aims to assess the impact of the work environment of the iranian national library and archive (nli) on creativity of its staff based on their opinion. method: keys standard questionnaire was distributed among all staff who had an academic degree. 183 completed questionnaires were collected and analyzed using spss. findings: results showed that the work environment of nli i...

The current research study presented assemblages theory and the of affordances to identify elements that make up processes creativity, innovative, creativity innovation. Assemblages involve heterogeneous are associated with interact external components. include can be either independent or as part an assemblage. assemblage comprises contribute assemblage, but not all active simultaneously. Each...

More and more organizations structure their innovation projects around functionally diverse teams. Why are some diverse teams more innovative than others? In my dissertation research, I investigate how cognitive diversity, conflict, and creativity affect the success of functionally-diverse innovation teams. Some research points to the importance of cognitive diversity for stimulating group crea...

BACKGROUND Creativity and innovation are key elements for organization improvement, particularly in nursing, and for finding alternatives for solving nurses' occupational problems. Nurses' creativity is affected by motivation. Although, there are many possible sources of motivation, the Iranian nurses' creativity is seldom clarified, and the most important factors motivating nurses to be creati...

Using a multi-year qualitative study, I explain how employees at a fast-growing retail organization used creative resourcing—that is, the manipulation and recombination of objects in novel and useful ways to solve problems. I induce two core organizational processes (autonomous resourcing and directed resourcing) that explain how organizations foster ongoing creative activities in response to d...

This paper considers the impact of information systems (IS) solutions on creativity and innovation within organizations and the associated role of risk assessment. It does this through an analysis of the results of two diverse studies. The studies are, respectively, an investigation of the relationship between the intention behind the initiation of an IS project and the post-implementation effe...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers how well an individual’s handle herself or himself and others instead of their technical skills to solve the problem. Creativity makes the individual to think deeply and manage their emotions while applying new knowledge in their organization. A positive attitude toward training and working environment can develop the employee’s emotional intelligence and crea...