Creative Climate Research Articles

Creative Environments for Sustainability in Organizations Promoting the Education of Vulnerable Groups

Developing creativity in socio-educational organizations facilitates progress towards sustainability, benefiting its professionals and users. The objective of this work is to analyze the creative climate in organizations that intervene with vulnerable groups to promote sustainability through Quality Education (SDG 4), Gender Equality (SDG 5), and Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10). A descriptive–correlational study was conducted with 203 professionals from associations, foundations, and social services councils. The CPPC-17 scale was applied, and the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, nonparametric tests, and cluster analysis. The results showed that the professionals presented high levels of creative potential. The opportunity to participate in work groups and the freedom to perform tasks favored creativity in the organizations. The main obstacles to creativity were the lack of incentive to take risks and of rewards for creative ideas. The profile of professionals with high levels of creative climate was mainly composed of association workers and those trained in Education, Psychology, and Speech Therapy. Significant differences were obtained in variables related to the organization (e.g., typology) and in personal variables, such as the academic background of the trainers. These findings should be considered to improve the creative climate in these organizations with a view to providing quality, egalitarian, and equitable education.

The influence of supply chain leadership on innovation: the mediating role of team creativity climate and the moderating role of supply chain complexity

ABSTRACT Amid dispersed global value chains and increased external opportunities to innovate, supply chain leaders have remarkably understood and mobilised resources, and firms that use supply chain resources have actively innovated and interacted with one another. This study uses social cognitive theory to examine the influence of supply chain leaders on innovation performance, the mediating role of team creativity climate in this relationship, and the moderating role of supply chain complexity in the relationships among leadership, performance, and team creativity climate. A questionnaire was administered to 211 Chinese firms, and their responses were assessed using hierarchical regression and bootstrap analyses. The results showed that supply chain leadership significantly and positively affected innovation performance, a relationship mediated by team creativity climate. This mediation was positively moderated by supply chain complexity. Finally, a moderating mediating effect was observed.

Approaches to Assessing the Creative Climate and Potential for Innovativeness of Educational Organizations

The paper provides an overview of selected methods and instruments for assessing the innovative capacity of organizations in general while raising questions about their potential application to schools. The premise is that diagnostics would be pointless if it were not accompanied by a strategy as well as a tool at the fingertips of school managers or leaders because the forms in which innovative potential can be manifested in a school are various. Innovation is not merely an object of transfer and exchange, but a matter of organizational climate which needs to be nurtured. Thus, the paper argues that the research of potential for innovativeness should be conducted by assessing the creative climate instead of organizational innovative culture; and suggests that organizational microclimate in the educational organization should be accompanied by efforts to foster, and respectively – assess – the team‘s competencies related to generating and implementing local innovative solutions. Whatever strategies, approaches, and skill sets the managing team chooses or has access to, these can only be effectively applied if 1) the settings (givens and constraints) are well understood and are taken into account; and 2) there is an awareness of the differences between traditional management and innovation management, which is associated with facilitating processes rather than leading them. The latter is covered elsewhere and not addressed here.

The Role of Agile Management in Achieving Creativity among employees in Bank of Palestine

The study aimed to identify the role of agile management in achieving creativity among Bank of Palestine employees, indicate the availability of agile management tools (worksite organization, standard work, six sims, continuous improvement, and multifunctional workers), and determine the extent of its ability to achieve creativity with its various dimensions (problem-solving, changeability, accepting risks, and encouraging creativity). The descriptive analytical approach was used to achieve the study's goals. Through this approach, a questionnaire consisting of (9) axes were developed. To collect the study data, the study population of (168) employees and administrators was targeted at the Bank of Palestine in the southern West Bank region. The sample of the study was (75), all of the questionnaires were retrieved and valid for analysis, and thus the recovery rate was (100 %).
 The researcher also conducted six interviews consisting of 15 questions with the Director of the Individual Business Department for branches and offices, branch managers, supervisors, and a number of employees in the Bank of Palestine included in the study.
 The study concluded with a set of results, the most important of which are: the dimensions of agile management are highly available in the Bank of Palestine, with main (3.47), and the dimensions of administrative creativity are also available in a high degree in Bank of Palestine, with main (3.51), the results also showed the existence of a positive and direct correlation between the dimensions of agile management and the factors of administrative creativity at the Bank of Palestine.
 Originality/value: The originality of the study lies in the importance of the topic as it is one of the modern topics in Palestine, and one of the rare studies that dealt with this topic, which is agile management and its role in achieving administrative creativity in application at the Bank of Palestine, when using modern administrative tools while creating a suitable climate for administrative creativity among employees contributes to maximizing value achieved for customers.

How and when Proactive Vitality Management Promotes Undergraduates' Creativity? A Conservation of Resources Perspective.

Despite widely highlighting that creative individuals need to be full of vitality to function optimally, previous research neglects the very real possibility that human beings may also need to proactively manage their vitality to ignite creativity. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, this study explores the impact of proactive vitality management on undergraduates' creativity through harmonious academic passion, as well as the moderating roles of university creative climate and prevention focus. Evidence from a scenario-based experiment (Study 1) and a multi-wave field survey (Study 2) demonstrated that proactive vitality management positively promoted individual creativity. This relationship was partially mediated by harmonious academic passion. In addition, proactive vitality management enhanced undergraduate students' creativity via harmonious academic passion in a high university creative climate, whereas the indirect effect was weak when prevention focus was high. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed, along with study limitations and future research directions.

Creating home: Socioeconomic status and home environment as predictors of family climate for creativity

Does a family's economic, cultural, and social capital link to the family climate for creativity at home? To address this question, we analyze the relationship between a family's socioeconomic status and climate for creativity in the parent-child relationship and specify how the home environment mediates between these components. The data come from a quantitative study of 155 families with children aged 6 to 10. We use observations, semi-structured interviews, and self-report techniques, with the majority of data (93.5 %) obtained from mothers. Results indicate that a family's socioeconomic status (family SES) is positively associated with creating a home environment that fosters creativity. Moreover, a family's SES exerts its effect on three factors of the climate for creativity in parent-child relationships (encouragement to experience novelty and variety, encouragement of nonconformism, and encouragement to fantasize) through the mediating effect of the home environment. These findings were discussed alongside future research directions and the proposal for possible mechanisms of family influences on the development of children's creativity.

Role of Creative Climate, Manager Attitude, and Financial Constraint on Creative Deviance at Workplace

Role of Creative Climate, Manager Attitude, and Financial Constraint on Creative Deviance at Workplace

Analyzing The Mediating Role of Green Creativity Climate on Green Product Performance: Evidence Form Industrial Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan

This paper aimed to explore the effects of EIP dimensions' success factors, in particular, environmental management, climate creativity, creative sustainability, and the environmental effects of products. innovation on organizational success of Pakistani manufacturers at different levels of execution, including environmental performance, economic performance, and operational performance. It also highlights the need for further research on EIP practices in developing nations such as Pakistan. Using a Convenient sample technique, survey questionnaires were used to gather data for this study, from the management of 185 companies in Pakistan. PLS-SEM was used to examine data related to the intended target market. which was managerial staff members (business experts & executives) from private business firms. Our results demonstrate that EIP, with its creative climate and green technology, has a favorable effect on the performance of green product development. We also learn that consumers with low standards for the environment and little desire to purchase goods can be found in manufacturing enterprises. According to our research, which supports the organizational innovation theory, raw art is the most crucial component of an organization that encourages the creation of a green manufacturing product. One finding from the research is that the presence of a green creative atmosphere is a crucial component in explaining the beneficial effects of EIP on the efficiency of green product development. Second, the EIP encourages the growth of organizational qualities in addition to raw material development. but additionally offers the advantages of organizational performance. Researchers may be able to gain a better understanding of the intermediary mechanisms linking green creativity, raw product innovation, and EIP with the use of these studies.

Climate action and creative climate justice

The answer to SDG 13 Climate action in this special issue takes the form of a contribution that breaks with the academic genre and bypasses the established academic or artistic formats of the journal. Instead, this contribution opens the door to the climate activist movement, shining a light on the urgency of the hour and the issues that are paramount in the hearts of climate-engaged artists, educators and cultural workers. Klimakultur, a non-profit organization supporting and strengthening the climate and environmental ambitions of the arts and culture sector in Norway, has together with Rosendal Teater in Trondheim released what they call a Creative Climate Justice Guide. This publication serves as inspirational tool for climate action. Cover image: Photo by Rosendal Teater and Klimakultur SA

Creative arts for sustainability transformations—Exploring children’s theater for the UN Sustainable Development Goals

This article responds to recent calls for more creative expressions of climate and sustainability transformations. In particular, research literature argues that the formulation of new narratives of sustainable societies may function as a prominent intervention for system changes. Yet, few empirical studies exist on how creative climate and sustainability storytelling elicit varying levels of awareness and engagement. With the intention to advance scholarship in the role of narratives to create engagement with sustainability transformations, this study investigates children’s theater for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as one research site. By analyzing the interactive children’s theater play “Esmeralda and the Dragon—The Global Sustainability Goals,” we show that creative storytelling can offer a meaningful space for engagement with Agenda 2030 and the UN SDGs. In particular, we find that (1) children’s cognitive and emotional associations and experiences shape the meaning of and responses to the SDGs and (2) the play’s fictional elements resonate with children’s emotional frameworks. Based on the results, we argue that new stories are needed for sustainability transformations and that there is transformative power in the creative and performance arts in this respect, and we call for further exploration of various publics engagements with sustainability storytelling.

Inclusive leadership and team climate: the role of team power distance and trust in leadership

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of inclusive leadership on team climate. Drawing on the social exchange theory (SET), this study proposes a theoretical model in which (1) inclusive leadership enhances team climate, (2) the moderating effect of team power distance and trust in leadership in the relationship between inclusive leadership and team climate.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative research method was applied, with a survey of 247 Nigerian employees nested in 59 teams in multiple small manufacturing firms across diverse industries widely distributed into textile, furniture, bakery and palm oil production firms. The partial least square structural equation modelling was used to test the study's proposed hypotheses.FindingsThe results revealed that inclusive leadership has a positive and direct effect on team climate. Also, this study found that (1) team power distance positively influences the relationship between inclusive leadership and team climate; and (2) trust in leadership positively influences the relationship between inclusive leadership and team climate.Research limitations/implicationsThis study affirms the explanatory power of SET to investigate inclusive leadership and team climate at the team level. Also, the study utilised the SET to confirm the significance and value of team power distance and trust in leadership in the relationship between inclusive leadership and team climate at the team level in the Nigerian context.Practical implicationsThe paper examined the relationship between inclusive leadership and team climate with team power distance and trust in leadership as moderators. The findings suggest that inclusive leadership play a paramount role in understanding team climate among small manufacturing firms. Moreover, the findings can be applied in organisations by creating different assessment mechanisms, e.g. webinars and training sessions, to encourage effective inclusive leadership behaviours in fostering a team climate for creativity and innovation.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this current research to knowledge is on the examination of the distinctive leadership style that influences team climate. The study indicates that when team members are allowed to fully contribute to the team, inclusion is promoted among group members, and trust in leadership is strengthened, which increases their perception of team climate within organisations.

Teaching for creativity in an EFL context: The predictive roles of school climate, teaching enthusiasm, and metacognition

This study delves into the realm of teaching for creativity within the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction. Grounded in theoretical underpinnings and empirical investigation, this research employs structural equation modeling (SEM) to scrutinize the interplay between EFL teachers' perceptions of school climate, teaching enthusiasm, teaching metacognition, and teaching for creativity (TfC). Through an online survey, 387 English teachers partook in this study, responding to comprehensive questionnaires assessing the aforementioned constructs. SEM analyses underscore that teaching enthusiasm emerges as the most potent predictor of TfC. Direct influences of school climate and teaching metacognition on TfC are substantiated. Furthermore, the impact of school climate on TfC is mediated through teaching enthusiasm and teaching metacognition. These findings bear substantial implications for teacher education initiatives, elucidating the pivotal role of school climate in fostering creativity through teaching enthusiasm and metacognitive strategies.

The Employability of Government Institution: The Role of Job Crafting and Creative Climate Moderator

The evolution of technology led to rapid changes that affected both organizations and employees. Employability was a term to describe a continuum process of fulfilling the skills and expertise that also changed rapidly. One’s behavior in crafting a job could lead to one’s employability. Organizational climate, which in this study was the creative climate, had a moderating role in affecting the job creation toward employability. This study aimed to explain the role of job crafting in predicting employability in government institution X and creative climate as the moderator. The quantitative approach was applied to this research, by distributing Employability Scale (α = 0.937), Job Crafting Scale (α=0.922), and Creative Climate Scale (α=0.950) to 129 employees of government institution X. The study showed that job crafting significantly predicted the employability (R2 = 56.7%; p = 0.000, p < 0.05) along with creative climate lessened the prediction of job crafting to employability (p = 0.027, p < 0.05). Thus, the hypothesis in this study was accepted. Therefore, it was worth noting that job crafting had benefits for employees’ employability with a constructive, suitable organizational climate.

Analysis of the Mediation Effect of Organizational Creative Climate on the Relationship of Self-Efficacy to Innovative Work Behavior

the potential for failure. Most business actors just starting their businesses experience the stigma of fear of failure, which can hinder innovation. In the context of MSMEs in the Lake Toba tourist area, the relationship between organizational creative climate (OCC), Self-Efficacy, and innovative work behavior can be very relevant. This research aims to analyze the mediating effect of organizational creative climate on the influence of self-efficacy on innovative work behavior. The results of this study confirm that self-efficacy has a significant effect on organizational creative climate. Organizational creative climate has a significant influence on innovative work behavior. The results further confirm that organizational creative climate can mediate the relationship between self-efficacy and innovative work behavior. The practical implications of this research can be the basis for advocacy to the government and related parties to provide further support to MSMEs in the region. This can involve policies that support the formation of an organizational creative climate and increase Self-Efficacy among MSME players.

Impact of Green Servant Leadership in Pakistani Small and Medium Enterprises: Bridging Pro-Environmental Behaviour through Environmental Passion and Climate for Green Creativity

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are crucial for any economy to grow and succeed, as evidenced in the Pakistani context, where SMEs contribute 30% of the country’s GDP. The objective of this study is to link green servant leadership (GSL) to the pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) of employees, particularly in SMEs, which very few studies have investigated. Building on social learning theory (SLT), this study developed and tested the conceptual framework that examines the impact of GSL on PEB and the mediating role of environmental passion (EP) and climate for green creativity (CFGC) among employees of SMEs. Data were collected from 460 middle-line managers, and a structural equation modelling (SEM) technique was applied to test hypotheses. The main findings revealed that GSL is impacted by the PEB, while EP and CFGC mediated these relations. The study findings demonstrated that a GSL with strong practices and values towards the environment could have a significant impact on employees’ PEB. This study fills the research gaps in different ways: First, by identifying the role of GSL on the PEB of employees. Second, by examining the dual-mediation mechanism of EP and CFGC between GSL and PEB. Third, this study is focused on the economic context of a developing country. The study offers guidelines for establishing PEB in SMEs. Multiple training programmes and effective planning procedures can achieve this milestone. The administration of SMEs should also give special consideration to pro-environmental issues in its hiring and recruitment practices for managers and leaders.

Encountering creative climate change pedagogies: Cartographic interruptions

In this paper, we highlight climate change pedagogies within the context of an Indigenous Summer Encounter for Latinx and Indigenous children led by Miakan-Band Elders, members of a Central Texas Coahuiltecan community. We focus on anticolonial cartographies activated through movement, sound and performance that enacted Indigenous fugitivity, futurity, and relationality; pedagogical attunements that remain undertheorized as approaches to climate change education. In engaging with these pedagogies as climate change education, we are interested in contributing to recent work that resists the disciplinary boundaries of what typically counts as climate education and invites expansive and interdisciplinary approaches to climate change education. This includes approaches that inquire into how climate change education can be a site to nurture reciprocal relations with the more than human world. In particular, we highlight the Summer Encounter as illustrating possibilities for anticolonial climate education that engages creative pedagogies in foregrounding Indigenous relational onto-epistemologies with young people. We discuss the potential of this work as climate change education that actualizes and dreams more livable futures.

The Influence of Ethical Leadership, Creative Work Climate, and Self-Efficacy on Employee Performance with Knowledge Sharing as an Intervening Variable

Performance is the main thing that an organization expects from the human resources it manages to bring the organization to its vision. In terms of employee performance, public service organizations have so far not yet succeeded in sufficing community expectations. This study aims to determine the effect of ethical leadership, creative work climate, and self-efficacy on employee performance and the role of knowledge sharing as a mediating variable. The research sample consisted of 100 employees at the Central Office of the Ministry of Industry with simple random sampling. The research approach is a quantitative method. The research instrument used the Individual work performance questionnaire (IWPQ), Ethical Leadership Scale, Creative Climate Questionnaire (CCQ), General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE), and knowledge sharing measurement based on a combination of social capital factors and theory of reasoned action, all of which were modified and adapted to the needs of this research. Data collection techniques were carried out by interviews and closed questionnaires with a Likert scale of 1 to 4 with data analysis techniques using Smart PLS 4. The research findings show that ethical leadership, creative work climate, and self-efficacy have a direct positive and significant effect at the moderate level on knowledge sharing, and shows that ethical leadership, creative work climate, and self-efficacy have a direct positive and significant effect at a strong level on employee performance. Unexpected results reveal that the mediating role of knowledge sharing between the influence of ethical leadership, creative work climate, and self-efficacy on employee performance is negatively significant at a low level.

The Creative Climate and its Relation to Risk-Taking among Nurses at Port Said Hospitals

The Creative Climate and its Relation to Risk-Taking among Nurses at Port Said Hospitals

Nexus between Knowledge Management and Creative Organizational Climate on Smart Organizations: Case of the Manufacturing Industry

The purpose of this study is to examine the knowledge management and creative organizational climate to assess their impact on smart organization in manufacturing industry. However, a descriptive study was conducted using a mixed method research. Primary purpose data were gathered from 50 food and beverages manufacturing companies based in UAE. The secondary data were based on prior studies, literature, books, journal, and academic publications. This study has examined the empirical view of relationship measurement of each variable. As a result, there are significant relationship among each variable that explains the organizations must adapt and innovate in the quickly shifting business environment of today to remain competitive. Knowledge management plays a crucial role in capturing, organizing, and leveraging knowledge assets within an organization. It facilitates the creation, sharing, and application of knowledge, enabling organizations to make informed decisions and drive innovation. Moreover, fostering a creative organizational climate encourages employees to think critically, explore new ideas, and collaborate effectively. This study also highlights the significance of knowledge management and a creative climate in the development of smart organizations that are agile, adaptive, and capable of embracing emerging technologies and market trends. By effectively managing knowledge and creating an environment that fosters creativity, organizations can enhance their ability to innovate, drive growth, and achieve sustainable success in today's dynamic business environment.

Minecraft Game as a New Opportunity for Teaching Renewable Energy Topics

In today’s Public Education Sector, the need for creative education is becoming more and more prominent. An excellent method for achieving this is gamification, which provides an opportunity to activate and motivate students by playfully processing the desired knowledge material. Minecraft is a multi-platform video game that can be successfully used in gamified education. This game platform is used at one of the summer camps we announced for elementary and high school students (10–16 years old). The participants mastered the topics of renewable energy sources with the help of the Minecraft game. This study describes the methods used in the camp and presents the research results on the effectiveness of the camp. The students’ current level of knowledge was examined with a questionnaire about renewable energy sources, and the collaborative skills questionnaire was used to assess the collaboration characteristics, and the school creative climate questionnaire was used to explore specific features of the camp. The practical results of the camp and the research results proved that gamification, the use of Minecraft, was excellent for arousing students’ interest, increasing their motivation, and helping them master the knowledge materials, effective task solving, and cooperation (i.e., the camp was equally effective from the point of view of knowledge acquisition and collaboration).