The present research examined when self-evaluation influences creativity. Based on objective self-awareness theory, the authors predicted that feeling able to improve would buffer against the detrimental effects of self-evaluation on creativity. Two experiments manipulated self-evaluation (varying self-awareness, Study 1; providing objective performance standards, Study 2) and perceived ability...

This research explores the relationship between organizational support for creativity and perceived usefulness of a knowledge management system (KMS) on project or task effectiveness. It has been shown that organizational support for creativity positively affects the innovativeness of a project (i.e., Amabile, 1996). Moreover, organizations are spending large amounts to build KMSs which allow t...

the purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers tefl (teaching english as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. the adapted english version of mills’ and péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the foreign langu...

today’s organizations especially university and other educational institutes face a rapidly changing environment where they must continuously innovate in order to remain competitive. however, this cannot occur unless a plentiful supply of rich ideas and solutions from an organizational creativity’s process. this study was conducted with purpose of identifying organizational creativity’s stimula...

The most widely used personality questionnaires are based on the trait paradigm, which implies relatively stable behavioural and emotional patterns. This assumption, however, has often been criticized and empirically called into question. For example, recent research has shown that trait questionnaires and aggregated momentary assessments of personality are highly related, but do not show conve...

....in the long run no really subtle, deep, and far-reaching problems can be solved in any field whatsoever, except by people who are able to respond in an original and creative way to the ever changing and developing nature of the overall fact by which they are confronted." (Bohm, 1998). Creativity can lead to many initiatives which are relevant to the development of business. This paper begin...