Creativity as the prerequisite for innovation is a core competitive factor in contemporary organizations. When creativity happens this involves creative persons who produce creative products in a process that cannot be fully anticipated and predescribed. We introduce the concept of pockets of creativity for those sections of a business process where creativity occurs. These sections are charact...

The aim of the research is to find out relationship between paternalistic leadership behaviours public primary school principals and teachers’ organizational creativity dissent perception levels according perceptions teachers. Correlational survey method was utilized in research. sample consists 1059 teachers working schools selected by methods stratified sampling Mardin city center 8 districts...

Managing creativity has proven to be one of the most important drivers in software development and use. The continuous changing market environment drives companies like Google, SAS Institute and LEGO to focus on creativity as an increasing necessity when competing through sustained innovations. However, creativity in the information systems (IS) environment is a challenge for most organizations...

Creativity is a complex endeavor for most organizations. Creativity Enhancing Systems (CES) help organizations collect and organize ideas, whereas idea evaluation allows organizational actors to identify the value of the collected ideas. However, idea evaluation accounts for a small proportion of the Information system (IS) literature on creativity. Moreover, management research has criticized ...

This paper examines whether the information sources used by knowledge workers have an impact on individual performance and creativity. Although it is widely recognized that new knowledge is created through the combination and exchange of existing knowledge, there is a large variety of knowledge sources available to individuals. In this study, we examine whether individual performance varies as ...

Creativity Research Journal 137 ABSTRACT: This article examines physical and social predictors of perceived support for creativity in the workplace and their effects on important personal and organizational outcomes. Recent conceptualizations of creativity suggest that the physical environment plays a key role in facilitating the development of creative processes and products, yet prior studies...

Responses from Egyptian employees to a questionnaire incorporating the Schwartz Value Survey, reveal that individuals for whom Selfdirection is a relatively important value type perceive themselves to be more creative in the workplace than individuals with Conformity or Power as preferred value types. Results regarding Organizational Context support earlier studies that emphasize the salience o...

Research on organizational creativity has increased rapidly in the last decade. Not only is creativity of interest to scientific researchers, it has become a compelling topic in the popular media, with recent articles in Psychology Today (Gryskiewicz 2000), Fast Company (Dahl 2000), and in business-oriented publications such as the Harvard Business Review (Hargadon and Sutton 2000). Why this in...

Creativity is central to human activity and is a powerful force in personal and organizational success. Approaches to supporting creativity are diverse and numerous. The only way to understand the diversity and utility of these methods is through their careful analysis. This paper demonstrates the benefit of conducting analyses of methods with the aid of a theory. As a first step, we use Infuse...