Organizational Creativity Research Articles

Managerial coaching and innovative work behavior: mediating role of psychological empowerment and moderating role of task interdependence

PurposeBased on the componential theory of organizational creativity and innovation, this study examined the relationship between managerial coaching (MC) and innovative work behavior (IWB). It focused on the mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating role of task interdependence.Design/methodology/approachThe self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from 420 employees of the United Arab Emirates’s public sector organizations. A hierarchical linear model (HLM) with different regression techniques was used.FindingsThe results showed that MC directly influences IWB. The path analysis also revealed that MC has an indirect effect on IWB via psychological empowerment. The moderating role of task independence in MC and IWB was also revealed.Practical implicationsThe findings shall provide insights that will help practitioners and academics understand frontline employees' innovative behavior in public sector settings and formulate strategies that will increase the involvement of employees in displaying innovation-based activities at the workplace.Originality/valueThis study adds value to the literature by integrating the componential theory of organizational creativity and innovation in public sector settings.

The Effects of Issue Leadership on Hotel Employee Creativity in China and Korea: The Double-Mediating Roles of Psychological Empowerment, Trust in Leader, and Organizational Commitment

Purpose - This research focuses on creativity and leadership as key roles of organizational success. While creativity plays a crucial role in the success of companies, leadership is a significant predictor of employee and organizational creativity. The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of issue leadership on hotel employee creativity, with a specific focus on Korea and China, and determine whether issue leadership is effective on the creativity of hotel employees via empowerment, trust in leader, and organizational commitment in both countries. Design/Methodology/Approach - The research model describes psychological empowerment, trust in leader, and organizational commitment as mediators between issue leadership and employee creativity. A questionnaire survey was conducted with hotel employees in Gyeogju and Busan in Korea, and Yunnan province in China. A total of 241 samples from Korea and 235 samples from China were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS.24 to examine the relationships between issue leadership and creativity, which were double-mediated by psychological empowerment, trust in leader, and organization commitment. Findings - The findings indicate that issue leadership has a positive effect on the creativity of hotel employees in both Korea and China. This study also reveals that in the Korean group, issue leadership has a greater impact on creativity in fostering the double-mediating roles of psychological empowerment and organizational commitment, whereas in the Chinese group, issue leadership has a greater impact on creativity in fostering the double-mediating roles of trust in leader and organizational commitment. Research Implications - This research has both academic and practical implications for hotel operations in Korea and China, providing valuable insights into the role of issue leadership in promoting employee creativity.

Why we need employees back at the office: The effect of workplace design on creativity in organizations

With the ongoing changes in the work environment, specifically turning from fulltime to no time at the office and nowadays pending somewhere in between, there is a need for decision makers to redefine their expectations of a day at the office. Previously, organizations worldwide focussed on creating workplaces that foster interaction and collaboration to enhance knowledge exchange and communication. Both are among the main drivers for stimulating creativity at the workplace, leading to increased innovation activities. Since offices are dramatically changing from lean, work‐focused, and hierarchical workstations into employee‐oriented, creativity‐enhancing spaces with playground artefacts, the need for quantitative research on the effects of workplace design on creativity seems evident for researchers and practitioners. Although prior research has attempted to describe the physical work environment and its impact on creativity, empirical evidence is still lacking on what concrete attributes of a workplace employees perceive as inspiring. We therefore contribute to the existent body of knowledge by establishing a definition for inspiring physical workplaces as perceived by employees in times of digitalization and provide a conceptual model analysing the effects between workplace design, internal knowledge exchange, and creative problem‐solving capacity. We assess our survey data with partial least squares structural equation modelling and provide first empirical evidence that our proposed formative index supports the common research agenda within the context of workplace design, and further, that aspects of workplace design not only enhance creative problem‐solving capacity as an important dimension of creativity itself, but that this relationship is also partially mediated by internal knowledge exchange.

The Role Of Innovative Marketing In Enhancing Creativity Of Industrial Organizations

Innovative marketing has become a basic pillar that countries and industrial companies rely on to achieve creativity in their work, a true criterion for their success and failure, and an essential element for their profit or loss. Innovative marketing has become an urgent necessity and there is no way to ignore it, because of its vital therefore, industrial organizations must shift from traditional marketing to innovative marketing and think outside traditional frameworks by constantly keeping pace with development, encouraging innovation, generating modern ideas, and adopting the concept of creativity by following modern and innovative marketing means and methods based on distinction and superiority. Hence, this search aimed to know the influence of innovative marketing in developing creativity. Data were collected using a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire form was distributed to a sample of 84 employees at the General Company for Textile and Leather Industry, in addition to personal interviews conducted by the researchers. The study results indicated that there is a relationship between innovative marketing in developing creativity through the selected dimensions, as the company’s management seeks to provide better sustainable programs for developing creativity by enhancing activities related to understanding customers’ desires and providing more of those desires. Paper type: Analytical research.

Creation of state organizations: experiments with ideal-type reform models in a non-Western country

ABSTRACT By studying organizational creations, this article documents the reform trajectory of a non-Western country from 1947 to 2018, using a comparative analytical framework for the operationalization of reform trends on an original dataset – PSAD. Pakistan has paralleled Western world in following the ideal-type reforms without entirely shifting to the new models. Context matters, but the type of government – civilian or military – has not made vivid difference. No one reform type was pushed away; instead, country moved beyond hierarchies and markets creating blends, staging the co-existence of NPM with hierarchies and networks at its 40th.

From green inclusive leadership to green creativity: The mediating role of green passion and green absorptive capacity

Green inclusive leadership can produce positive outcomes for green innovation and green sustainability in all sectors. However, academic research on green creativity and green inclusive leadership is limited in the literature. Therefore, this study theorised a conceptual model based on the organisational creativity theory to investigate the impact of green inclusive leadership on green creativity with the mediating role of green passion and green absorptive capacity. Data in this study were gathered from 540 employees working in China’s electronics and machinery industry. The hypotheses were analysed using the partial least squares structural equation modelling technique (PLS-SEM). The findings reveal that green inclusive leadership was positively and significantly linked to green creativity, and this association was significantly mediated by green passion and green absorptive capacity. Finally, the discussion, implications, and future research avenues were elaborated on in this study. Data AvailabilityThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Enablers or deterrent? Role of street level managers in use of creativity at the frontlines

AbstractUsing qualitative data from frontline police organizations in Punjab, Pakistan, this article investigates the role of street level management on creativity and improvisation in the frontline. Our findings show that the professional identities and attitudes of the street level managers play an important role in mediating creativity by the frontline workers, especially in the hierarchal organizational structure. If the managers adopted rule‐following attitude, frontline workers often faced hindrances in the use of creativity, leading to alienation. In contrast, if managers adopted a defiant attitude, frontline workers engaged in moderated creativity as they assumed the risk of rule breaking. This shows that creativity and innovation in organizations with no formal mandate to improvize is a messy and political process. Our study indicates the need to extend the research on policy innovation to hierarchal bureaucracies and organisational contexts where team work is not encouraged.

‘You are not Sikkimese enough’: Understanding collective action tendencies of old settlers in Sikkim using SIMCA

AbstractThe current study analyses the motivators and inhibitors of collective action tendency using the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA). The study was conducted with a minority and state‐based repressed group known as the old settlers in Sikkim, India. The old settlers are a community that have been historically settled in Sikkim prior to the state's merger with India in 1975. They are racially and ethnically different from the majority population of northeasterners in Sikkim and face both institutional and interpersonal discrimination. A qualitative approach using semi‐structured interviews with 11 old settlers was taken to delineate SIMCA variables – moral conviction, identity, injustice and efficacy – within the context of northeast India. Collective action was motivated through moral conviction via principles of equality and unequal treatment and outsider status, identity via politicisation of identity, creation of social movement organisations, injustice via anger and fraternal resentment and efficacy via marches and legal recourses. Collective action was inhibited through moral conviction via denial of violation, identity via acculturation, injustice via fear and efficacy via learned helplessness. These findings indicate that in state‐based repressed groups, collective action tendencies must be understood from a context‐specific lens that attempts to understand both motivating and inhibitory factors.

Development of a multidimensional scale to measure organizational creative capabilities

AbstractAlthough the literature's case and longitudinal studies provide ample evidence of organizational routines that foster creative behaviors, it still lacks an integrative model of organizational creative capabilities (OCCs) and the quantitative evidence to validate such a model. This research is aimed at conceptualizing and developing a reliable and valid scale for OCCs. First, we define the OCC construct's domain by conducting an extensive literature review. We then generate a list of items for the five dimensions of OCCs through a qualitative study involving a group of 24 practitioners (Study 1a) and by surveying nine senior researchers (Study 1b). We refine the OCC scale using a sample of 269 responses collected in France and Canada (Study 2), and we conduct a first‐order confirmatory factor analysis (Study 3). Finally, we perform a second‐order confirmatory analysis (Study 4a) on samples of 220 responses collected mainly in the United States and Europe, generalize our results to a sample of 205 responses, and strengthen the predictive validity (Study 4b). Our results provide significant evidence that OCCs can be conceptualized around five dimensions: internal socialization routines, idea management routines, external openness routines, creative equipment routines, and internal agility routines. Furthermore, the research confirms the scale's good psychometric qualities, thus ensuring that researchers can be confident in the reliability of any future academic research design using the scale. We also validate the OCC scale's predictive validity by verifying that a five‐dimensional reflective scale with 16 indicators has a significant positive effect on the creative outcome. This OCC scale can be used by practitioners to better understand the organizational routines they have to develop in order to strengthen their organization's creativity. It also provides a way for longitudinal studies to observe how OCCs evolve over time.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Class Inequalities within the British Documentary Film Industry

While there is a considerable amount of scholarship and grey literature about social exclusions within the UK cultural industries, the sociology of cultural labour has paid little attention to documentary film-making as a relatively elitist occupation that is maintained by systemic inequalities. Based on semi-structured interviews with several independent documentary film-makers about their own labouring subjectivities, and qualitative analysis of relevant academic literature and cultural policies, this article critically explores how class inequalities are understood, reproduced, negotiated or resisted within contemporary British documentary film-making. The research findings demonstrate that documentarians from socially disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to face significant obstacles in the film-making sector than their privileged counterparts. While the majority of respondents are aware of structural disadvantages, champion more inclusive forms of creativity and are committed to improving discriminatory working conditions, a small number of participants believe that the social relations of documentary film production are meritocratic, can be characterised by their celebration of neoliberal values and a willingness to defend the industry's employment practices. The article concludes with a series of recommendations for creative organisations, government and policymakers.

Rosnące znaczenie ewaluacji w zmieniającej się rzeczywistości społeczno-politycznej

The article focuses on evaluation, which remains of unflagging popularity and interest in many scientific disciplines and areas of social life. The article is divided into three parts. Firstly, it attempts to outline the variety of theoretical contexts of the relationship between education, science, evaluation and state policy in this respect. The second part presents arguments for the need to practice educational (seflevaluation) – especially its dialogic forms in schools, resulting from the experience gained in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, including the results of research carried out in primary schools in Szczecin. The third part covers issues related to the importance of developmental evaluations in education, consisting of democratizing organizational culture, opening social discourse and supporting patterns of institutional reflexivity. In literature this is described as “participatory research”, “interventional research” in which the researcher conducts the analysis at the same time also thinking about using its results to formulate the recommendations regarding public policy or for the purposes of creation and support of organizations acting in the best interest of the researched community. This article presents a fragment of results of a research – its subject being “Diagnosing needs and expectations of students and teachers in primary schools in Szczecin days before returning to school” – conducted in May 2021. Comfort-Stretch-Panic model, created by Karl Rohnke, has been used as a theoretical framework for said research.

Legal basis for the regulation and functioning of youth sports and educational organizations in Eastern Galicia from 1848 to 1939

The Prosvita Society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played a key role in the formation and development of the Ukrainian cultural and educational sphere in Eastern Galicia. Its activities were based on historical and legal principles that determined its purpose, tasks and organisational structure. The main goal of Prosvita was to raise the educational and cultural level of Ukrainians. Its activities were based on the idea of national and cultural consciousness and self-awareness. It also promoted the creation of an extensive network of societies covering different segments of the population. This allowed for the formation of a united community that understood national needs and aspirations. She actively worked on the Ukrainisation of the school system and the promotion of the Ukrainian language in the educational process. «Prosvita» initiated and supported the creation of various public, educational, cultural and other organisations, such as «Selskii Hospodar», «Maslosoyuz», «Narodna Torgovlya», «Ridna Shkola», «Ruska Besida», «Union of Ukrainian Women», «Sokil», «Sich», «Plast», «Luh» and many others. It played a prominent role in the national liberation movement, in which Prosvita was considered one of the main institutions that fostered patriotic feelings and national consciousness among Ukrainians. The organisational structure of Prosvita helped to unite Ukrainians into a strong and well-organised community that was ready for self-determination and national revival. It actively worked to preserve and develop Ukrainian culture and identity, supporting Ukrainian traditions and language. A number of student organisations, such as the Ukrainian Student Society Sich, Academic Circle, Druh, Druzhnyi Lichvar, Academic Brotherhood, Vatra, Academic Community, Osnova, and Ukrainian Student Union, demonstrate the diversity and multilayered nature of the Ukrainian student movement. They worked on the basis of the leading higher education institutions of Lviv, such as Lviv University and Lviv Polytechnic. On the eve of the Second World War, in the western part of Ukraine, particularly in Galicia, there were a significant number of youth associations that were united into county unions. These associations ranged in size from 10 to 30 local societies and performed various functions in the fields of sports, culture, and education. At the end of May 1933, there were 109 unions in Galicia, uniting 12 county and 254 local societies. Their membership totalled 13,245 people. The societies were actively engaged in various activities such as football, volleyball, skiing, drama, and other types of cultural and educational events.

Improving the Performance of Worker in the E-commerce Industry Through Leadership Role, Creativity and Learning Culture

Objective: This research aims to analyze the influence of transformational leadership on employee creativity, which is moderated by knowledge sharing. Method: This research uses two combined research methods, namely exploratory research and descriptive research. Researchers combined non-probability sampling and judgment sampling. Researchers collected data through questionnaires and interviews. Researchers will process the data in this research using the factor analysis method with SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) software. Results and Discussion: Applying the transformational leadership style positively influences employee creativity. Apart from that, the knowledge-sharing variable also plays an important role in increasing employee creativity. Although some indicators of knowledge sharing fall into the good category while others are in the neutral category, they still positively contribute to employee creativity. Hypothesis testing shows that transformational leadership, with its four dimensions, has a positive and significant effect on employee creativity. However, the knowledge sharing variable does not strengthen the relationship between the influence of transformational leadership on employee creativity and is also not a moderator of the influence between the two. Research Implications: This study can provide a deeper understanding of how transformational leadership style and knowledge sharing can interact to influence employee creativity, especially in the context of organizations led by superiors and populated by generation Y employees. This research can also provide insight for companies in developing leadership strategies and a work culture that can increase creativity and innovation in the workplace. Originality/Value: This research adds significant value by combining two main concepts, namely transformational leadership and knowledge sharing, and applying them in the context of rapidly developing e-commerce companies. By not only examining the direct influence of transformational leadership on employee creativity but also looking at how knowledge sharing can moderate this relationship, this research provides a more comprehensive picture of the factors that influence creativity in organizations.

Британские миссии зенаны XIX века и их проекты освобождения индийских женщин

The article studies the goals, objectives, directions of work of the British zenana missions in the XIX th century based on the analysis of reports and articles in missionary magazines. It is shown that the creation of organizations was caused by the desire to help the disenfranchised women of India. Women missionaries sought to mitigate the social exclusion of Indian women, opposed cruel customs, slavery and humiliation of women, provided them with educational and medical services. Christianization was carried out without violence, through familiarization with Western culture. The author concludes that, the missionaries made a great contribution to the socio-cultural development of India, the improvement of social relations, the development of women’s education and the medical system of the British colony.

Relatıons Between Error Management Culture, Work Engagement And Organizational Creativity

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the effects of error management culture and work engagement behaviors on organizational creativity. Design/Methodology/Approach: In this study, the relational screening model was used since it was aimed to determine the relationship, relational change, effect and their degrees between at least two variables. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 747 teachers working in primary and secondary schools in five education regions in the city center of Elaziğ constitute the sample of the research. Relational screening model was used. The “Error Management Culture” scale was developed by the researcher. In the research, structural equation analysis was used to measure the effects of error management culture and work engagement behaviors on organizational creativity, and correlation analysis was used to measure the relationship between these concepts. In this research, a mediation analysis was conducted considering that the error management culture has a mediating role in the effect of work engagement behaviors on organizational creativity. Findings: In the research, it has been determined that the error management culture and the behaviors of work engagement have a significant relationship with organizational creativity. Error management culture and work engagement predict organizational creativity positively, significantly and weakly. In the mediation analysis, it was concluded that the error management culture partially mediate the effect of work engagement behaviors on organizational creativity. Highlights: In schools, practices that support teachers’ engagement to work should be included. In addition, in-service trainings and informative trainings on managing errors should be given to administrators and teachers.

Understanding Creative Entrepreneurs’ Work Practices: The Varying Conversation between Artistic and Economic Rationales

Research on creative organizations often questions how artistic practices can be squared within the rational decision-making of economic thinking. This paper examines how the relational language, or conversation, between artistic and economic rationales unfolds for creative entrepreneurs. Through ethnographic work with a designer-entrepreneur, this paper presents a fine-grained analysis of the conversation the designer cultivates between artistic and economic rationales through work practices. We contribute to the literature about artistic and economic rationales at work, and more specifically to the concept of conversation. First, we show that high levels of conversing make way for low levels of conversing and vice versa. In the studio, the designer’s engagement with either rationale varies as the creative process progresses. Second, on a more global dynamic, we demonstrate the conversation is continuous. It relies on its variations, which ensure the balance between rationales in the long run. We also contribute to the field of creative entrepreneurship research. We identify here one type of creative entrepreneur, with what we call a ‘small is beautiful’ attitude. Far from the mythical figure of the entrepreneur, this unconventional entrepreneur aims for sustainable use of creative resources rather than growth at all costs.

Activity of youth movements in Ukraine at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries

The purpose of the study is to analyze the evolution of the youth protest movement in Ukraine in the late 1990s - early 2000s. A comparative historical method and an interdisciplinary approach are applied. The author’s scientific contribution consists in the fact that for the first time in Russian historiography, such problems as the role of Ukrainian youth and students in the Revolution on granite and the “Ukraine without Kuchma” campaign are seriously studied, as well as the history of the creation of the youth organization “Pora”, which was destined to play one of the key roles in the Orange revolution in Ukraine at the end of 2004. The author comes to the conclusion that the genesis of the Ukrainian youth protest movement at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries is distinguished by a significant originality, and its result was the emergence of a phenomenon unique for the Ukrainian socio-political space - the organization “Pora”. It is emphasized that this structure was created on the theoretical and practical basis of previous anti-government campaigns, in which Ukrainian youth took a direct part. At the same time, it was guided by the experience of similar foreign movements that had previously successfully applied the methodology of nonviolent struggle against the ruling regimes developed in the West. Like its European associates, “Pora” has made a significant contribution to the victory of the Color revolution in its own state.

Hampered by creation: the unintended consequences of COVID-19 policies on creative firms

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly interrupted operations for many industries, but in particular the live entertainment sector that was effectively forced into a global shutdown. In response, governments swooped in to keep these organisations afloat by introducing policies aimed at compensating for lost revenues and supporting other forms of activity such as creation. While these reactive measures undoubtedly provided timely and vital relief for some, this study suggests that they also induced important distortions over time. Based on interviews with circus arts managers, the results show that these policies unintendedly introduced or contributed to four main ‘asymmetries’ – outlets, customer base, structure, and talent – that now hamper creative organisations as they transition out of the pandemic. This study contributes to the emerging body of work on the unforeseen consequences of COVID-related support measures, challenges the dominant contextual approach to managing ambidexterity, and provides valuable insights for government and policy actors.

Cross-level transformation of creativity from entrepreneurs to organizations.

With the intensification of competition in the business environment, organizational creativity is increasingly becoming crucial for organizations to build competitive advantages and promote organizational development. For innovative enterprises, their entrepreneurs largely determine the development orientation of the enterprise. They are one of the most critical factors determining the level of corporate innovation, but there need to be more effective creativity transformation path to pursue innovation development. The findings in this study show that entrepreneurial individual creativity has a significant positive effect on organizational creativity, platform leadership mediates the path of creativity transformation across hierarchical levels, and organizational culture has positive moderating effect between platform leadership and organizational creativity. The study results explain the transformation mechanism of creativity from the entrepreneur's perspective, expand the potential transformation path of organizational creativity, and are instructive for enhancing organizational creativity.

Fostering firm performance through organizational creativity of Nigeria's Fintech industry

Understanding how to come up with original ideas has become a top priority for CEOs in today's innovation-driven economy, as firms increasingly see creativity as a critical skill for surviving the ever-evolving business landscape. The study looked at the connection between company performance and organizational innovation. A verified structured questionnaire was distributed to 375 employees of the seven largest Fintech companies in Nigeria, out of a total workforce of 15,008 workers, using the survey research design. A statistical approach called multiple regression analysis was employed to examine the collected data. The results showed that although the association between organizational structure and company performance is good, it is not statistically significant (b=0.140, P=.081 <0.05). In contrast, the organizational resources industry has a positive and significant relationship with firm performance (b=0.364, P=.003 <0.05). Among other things, it was determined that organizational structure and organizational structure positively influenced creativity. The study's main recommendations are that leaders should effectively communicate the established vision to their subordinates so that they can take full responsibility and initiative for their jobs through the sharing of authority and that the socio-environmental context of the workplace should be equipped with the necessary facilities to make the atmosphere more enjoyable for employees. The study adds to the body of knowledge by validating the notion that creativity is an unmanageable concept, establishing a successful agreement on organizational creative initiatives in their business model, and demonstrating the entirety of organizational factors in creativity program implementation that influence business results.