Creative Performance Research Articles

The impact of creativity on creative performance among university students in higher vocational education in China: The mediating role of autonomous motivation

The impact of creativity on creative performance among university students in higher vocational education in China: The mediating role of autonomous motivation

Affect under need satisfaction and need thwarting: A new classification for the prediction of creative performance

Affect plays a pivotal role in fostering creative performance, and there is increasing recognition that different levels and types of affect may exert distinct impacts on creative performance. Drawing upon self-determination theory, this study aims to explore a novel classification of affect—affect under need satisfaction and need thwarting—and examine its relationship with creative performance. Study 1 involved 75 participants to investigate the content of affect under need satisfaction and need thwarting. Study 2 explores the relationship between affect and creative performance using a sample of 115 employees from Beijing. The findings unveiled nine types of affect under need satisfaction (e.g., moderate levels of excited) and eleven types of affect under need thwarting (e.g., low levels of afraid). Positive associations were observed between affect under need satisfaction and creativity, while negative associations were found between affect under need thwarting and creativity. Empirical evidence corroborating the significant role of the new classification of affect in enhancing employee creativity within the context of Chinese academia and researchers is presented.

Contributions of Metacognition to Creative Performance and Behavior

ABSTRACTHow are ideas born? Contrary to commonly held beliefs, creative performance, like any goal‐oriented action, requires understanding and managing one's own cognitive processes – thus, efficient metacognition. Recently, a systematic framework of creative metacognition (CMC) has been proposed, assuming the relevance of metacognitive knowledge, monitoring, and control in creative performance. Here, we provide the first comprehensive empirical examination of this conception. Specifically, an online sample (N = 425) performed divergent thinking (DT) tasks and gave insight in relevant aspects of metacognitive processes during task performance. The study revealed that all three proposed components of CMC played independent roles in enhancing creative cognitive performance, including divergent thinking creativity and fluency. Among these components, metacognitive control showed the strongest positive association with creative cognitive performance. As expected, CMC was especially relevant to imminent creative task performance but showed some association with real‐life creativity. These findings provide the first empirical evidence that all three postulated components of CMC support creative performance and, to a lesser degree, to creative behavior. In the discussion, we delve deeper into the specific roles of these metacognitive subcomponents in enhancing creative cognitive performance and touch upon the differences between the roles of self‐regulation and metacognition in creativity.

The impact of creativity training on creative performance: A meta-analytic review and critical evaluation of 5 decades of creativity training studies.

Creativity is widely considered a skill essential to succeeding in the modern world. Numerous creativity training programs have been developed, and several meta-analyses have attempted to summarize the effectiveness of these programs and identify the features influencing their impact. Unfortunately, previous meta-analyses share a number of limitations, most notably overlooking the potentially strong impact of publication bias and the influence of study quality on effect sizes. We undertook a meta-analysis of 169 creativity training studies across 5 decades (844 effect sizes, the largest meta-analysis of creativity training to date), including a substantial number of unpublished studies (48 studies; 262 effect sizes). We employed a range of statistical methods to detect and adjust for publication bias and evaluated the robustness of the evidence in the field. In line with previous meta-analyses, we found a moderate training effect (0.53 SDs; unadjusted for publication bias). Critically, we observed converging evidence consistent with strong publication bias. All adjustment methods considerably lowered our original estimate (adjusted estimates ranged from 0.29 to 0.32 SDs). This severe bias casts doubt on the representativeness of the published literature in the field and on the conclusions of previous meta-analyses. Our analysis also revealed a high prevalence of methodological shortcomings in creativity training studies (likely to have inflated our average effect), and little signs of methodological improvement over time-a situation that limits the usefulness of this body of work. We conclude by presenting implications and recommendations for researchers and practitioners, and we propose an agenda for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Mediators of the relationship between physical indoor spaces and individual creativity

AbstractWorkspaces can enhance the creativity of the designers that occupy them. Here, we review experimental studies of creative spaces to identify constructs that mediate (explain) the relationship between physical spaces and creative performance. Through a literature review of 8 journal articles comprising 13 experiments, we identify 14 constructs involving cognitive, affective and physiological components. Knowledge of these mediators can help researchers to formulate hypotheses, select control variables, and develop conceptual models and theories of creative spaces in design.

Enhancing employees’ creative performance by giving developmental feedback

PurposeThe principal objective of this current research is to explore and test an underlying mechanism to solve the inconsistent relationship between supervisors’ developmental feedback and employee creativity. This study also tests the moderating role of absorptive capacity in fully understanding the relationship between two constructs.Design/methodology/approachA time-lagged survey was utilized to collect data from 317 employees working at information technology (IT) organizations in Vietnam. This research conducted a hierarchical regression analysis to examine the hypotheses.FindingsThis research found that employees’ operational skills fully mediated the link between supervisors’ developmental feedback and employees’ creative performance. Moreover, absorptive capacity positively moderated the relationship between supervisors’ developmental feedback and employees’ operational skills as well as the relationship between employees’ operational skills and employee creativity.Originality/valueThis research is one of the first papers to discuss the mediating role of employees’ operational skills in associating supervisors’ developmental feedback with employee creativity in response to the calls of previous studies. To fully comprehend the indirect impact of supervisors' developmental feedback on workers' creative performance, this research also examines the moderating influence of absorptive capacity at the individual level.

The Impact of Art College Students’ Innovation Learning Ability Under STEAM Education

STEAM education, as an education model to train future comprehensive talents, not only challenges the traditional education, but also puts forward on the new requirements for students’ learning ability. As it empowers people to create and solve issues in their daily lives, the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) education has a significant influence on generating creative students. Problem-solving ability, innovation ability, cooperation ability and autonomous learning ability are the popular student’s learning ability to discussed emphatically by educators. Among these abilities, innovation ability is the most topical, and it is more in line with the development of society. Under the theory of Self-efficacy, Learning Engagement, and Creative Performance, this study aims to investigate the impacted elements of the art college students’ innovation learning ability under STEAM education system; and to analyze the art college students’ perspectives of innovation learning ability under STEAM education system at a university in China. It adopts interview method with 6 samples at Shenyang Normal University in Liaoning Province, China. Through the systematic study of STEAM education concept, the findings indicated that creative self-efficacy, learning engagement and creative performance are the related elements with innovation learning ability. The more cognitive, emotional, and behavioral inputs students get and the more demanding efforts they put into creative activities, the greater the influence on students’ creative performance. In addition, the art college students’ perspectives of innovation learning ability under STEAM education system are positive.

The Effects of the Feedback Environment of PE Classes on Students" Classroom Engagement and Creative Performance

The Effects of the Feedback Environment of PE Classes on Students" Classroom Engagement and Creative Performance

Fostering Creative Performance in Digital Business: The Role of Innovative Millennial Entrepreneurship

Fostering Creative Performance in Digital Business: The Role of Innovative Millennial Entrepreneurship

“I know my idea is original!” Creative metacognitive monitoring and regulation in kindergarten children

The present study examined the relationship between kindergarteners’ creative performance, global metacognitive monitoring (i.e., the ability to self-evaluate their overall creative performance) and metacognitive regulation (i.e., the ability to select their most original idea). Prior research established a positive correlation between metacognitive accuracy in global self-evaluation and creativity in adults, but little is known about how these relate to idea selection in younger populations. The study involved fifty 4- to 6-year-olds who completed two creativity tasks (an Unusual Uses Task and a Product Improvement Task) and selected their most original idea for each. The results showed a moderate correlation between the children's ability to select their most original ideas for the two tasks, which suggests that metacognitive skills are transferable within the domain of creativity already at this age. Additionally, there was a moderate-to-strong trend in children capable of accurately identifying original ideas and the ability to perform more creatively, which is in line with previous findings in adults. Furthermore, children who displayed higher metacognitive accuracy in global self-evaluation were also better at metacognitive regulation, i.e., they were better capable of selecting their most original idea. However, even the children who performed best in idea selection tended to overestimate their overall creative performance. The study provides insights into the early development of creative metacognitive monitoring and regulation, and suggests potential implications for fostering creativity in education.

The Effect of Empowering Leadership on Creative Performance: An Analytical Research in Diyala General Company

This research aims to explore the impact of multifaceted empowering leadership (power and responsibility delegation, autonomous decision-making, knowledge sharing, skill development, and innovative performance training) as an independent variable in achieving multi-dimensional creative performance (authenticity, fluency, flexibility, self-efficacy) as a dependent variable. The research also aims to enhance the quality of empowering leadership among a sample of 117 leaders in Diyala Public Company through effective modern leadership styles. The research specifically focuses on the importance of creative performance in this sample. Data was collected using a questionnaire as the main tool and statistical methods such as standard deviation, Sobel test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and software such as SPSS and Excel. The results showed a significant positive and direct relationship between empowering leadership and creative performance in general. The research concluded that empowering managers in Diyala Public Company with the authority to make necessary changes is an important step to improve overall work processes. This empowering helped managers effectively adapt to challenges and increase efficiency in responding to changing market demands. By empowering managers to improve processes, the company succeeded in promoting innovation and increasing productivity, ultimately enhancing its position in the market and achieving sustainable and clear success. Research type: Research paper

Examining the Impact of Trust-Based Active Participation: An Empirical Study in Creative Industry That Adopt Digital Platform

The main challenge in building a creative industry that acquires a digital platform is the limited ideas used to encourage the presence of booming products and the limited understanding of employees of creative industry players in dealing with technological changes; this is in line with the phenomenon where 31.40% of digital business actors in Indonesia are still experiencing a decline in revenue in 2022. In connection with the main obstacles, this research aims to find constructs capable of mediating the role of technology in the form of Social Media Use to Work (SMUW) in its impact on Creative Performance (CP). Where SMUW, in many studies, has no significant effect on building CP. This study offers the role of Trust-Based Active Participation (TBAP) and Innovative Culture (IC) in mediating SMUW against CP. The object of this research is the creative industry that uses digital platforms, with a total sample of 188 businesses. This study empirically proves that SMUW does not significantly affect CP, but TBAP and IC can boost SMUW on CP with a a total effect of 0.384. From this achievement, it is proven empirically that TBAP and IC can fully mediate the role of SMUW on CP. In implementing the strategy, it was found that in order to optimize the role of SMUW for CP. This contributes to the domain of learning organization theory and middle ring dynamic capability.

A systematic review guanxi HRM practices, formal HRM practices to improve creative performance in collectivism organization culture

This systematic review study argues that guanxi HRM practices, as opposed to formal HRM practices, may improve the employee’s performance in organizations with a collective business culture. To substantiate this claim, three decade published articles; literature from the Sage, Asia Pacific, Taylor & Francis Group, and Emerald journals are reviewed. NVivo software was used for content, coding, and analysis. The results of this systematic review study reveal that informal term of guanxi HRM practices identifies positive and productive outcomes of employees in the collectivism business culture organizations in contrast to formal HRM practices. This study is useful because it also proposes that in the future, academics and HR managers can explore the guanxi HRM practices that adhere to collectivist culture in their organizational culture, particularly in growing nations like Pakistan, both theoretically and practically to enhance employee performance to meet global challenges.

How and when does boundary spanning behavior influence employees’ creative performance? The roles of meaning of work and team Chaxu climate

How and when does boundary spanning behavior influence employees’ creative performance? The roles of meaning of work and team Chaxu climate

Singing truth to power: Transformative (gender) justice, musical spatialities and creative performance in periods of transition from violence

Feminist security studies have demonstrated that transitional justice processes worldwide have largely fallen short in providing actual transformative justice for women and that many gendered war experiences remain largely unaccounted for. Through an activist-academic collaboration and mobilizing feminist scholarship on war, embodiment and emotions together with literature on transitional justice and the arts, this article argues that women’s collective artistic resistance can foster deeper cultural and structural changes in transitional justice settings. By delving into the case of the women’s music collective Enkelé in Colombia, the article examines the creative possibilities afforded by music and choreography to document and testify to an enduring culture of violence and their role in probing the effectiveness of post–peace agreement transitional justice. We contend that paying attention to musical performances is key because these can express new visions of justice that are not constrained by the limits of what is possible and feasible in formal transitional justice mechanisms and can offer corporeal connectivity able to bring together communities fractured by war and armed conflict and to give visibility to knowledges and practices of memory and healing of marginalized communities.

Supplemental Material for The Impact of Creativity Training on Creative Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review and Critical Evaluation of 5 Decades of Creativity Training Studies

Supplemental Material for The Impact of Creativity Training on Creative Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review and Critical Evaluation of 5 Decades of Creativity Training Studies

Cash or Non-Cash? Exploring Ideators’ Incentive Preferences in Crowdsourcing Contests

ABSTRACT Even though research has repeatedly shown that non-cash incentives can be effective, cash incentives are the de facto standard in crowdsourcing contests. In this multi-study research, we quantify ideators’ preferences for non-cash incentives and investigate how allowing ideators to self-select their preferred incentive—offering ideators a choice between cash and non-cash incentives—affects their creative performance. We further explore whether the market context of the organization hosting the contest—social (non-profit) or monetary (for-profit)—moderates incentive preferences and their effectiveness. We find that individuals exhibit heterogeneous incentive preferences and often prefer non-cash incentives, even in for-profit contexts. Offering ideators a choice of incentives can enhance creative performance. Market context moderates the effect of incentives, such that ideators who receive non-cash incentives in for-profit contexts tend to exert less effort. We show that heterogeneity of ideators’ preferences (and the ability to satisfy diverse preferences with suitably diverse incentive options) is a critical boundary condition to realizing benefits from offering ideators a choice of incentives. We provide managers with guidance to design effective incentives by improving incentive-preference fit for ideators.

Investigating the neural substrate variations between easy and challenging creative association tasks during product design within an fMRI scanner

In practice, individuals strive to develop highly original and valuable creative products within specific limitations. However, previous functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies focused on divergent-thinking tasks without considering the "valuableness" of an idea. Additionally, different types of creative tasks (e.g., the easier association vs. the harder association task) may engage distinct cognitive processes. This study aimed to investigate the underlying neural mechanisms associated with different types of creative thinking, specifically focusing on the generation of the most original and valuable creative product within an fMRI scanner. Twenty-one college students participated in a block design study. During each trial, participants were instructed to draw the most original and valuable product inspired by a given figure. The findings revealed that, in comparison to the harder association task, the easier association task led to broader activation across multiple brain regions. However, this broader activation resulted in inefficient thinking and poorer creative performance. Notably, the orbitofrontal cortex exhibited activation across various creativity tasks and displayed connectivity with several seed brain regions, highlighting the importance of decision-making when only one original and valuable product design is allowed. Furthermore, the complex functional connectivity observed between different brain networks reflects the intricate nature of creative thinking. To conclude, widespread activation of brain regions does not necessarily indicate superior creativity. Instead, optimal creative performance within constraints is achieved through an efficient utilization of association for generating innovative ideas, inhibition for suppressing unoriginal ideas, and decision-making to select the most creative idea.

How does stress shape creativity? The mediating effect of stress hormones and cognitive flexibility

Based on the “Dual Pathway to Creativity Model”, this study explores the potential relationship between acute stress and individual creative performance, and further unveils the mediating roles of the neuroendocrine system and cognitive functions in this relationship, providing empirical evidence and theoretical support for addressing creative challenges under stress. Sixty healthy adults were randomly assigned to complete tests of cognitive flexibility and creativity under stress or control conditions, with salivary cortisol levels evaluated by the Enzyme-Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay. Changes in participants’ heart rate, anxiety state, negative affect, and positive affect were monitored to reflect the effects of stress during the experiment. The findings demonstrated that acute stress negatively impacts creative performance and indirectly affects individual creativity through the mediating role of cortisol levels and cognitive flexibility. This study provides a theoretical foundation for enhancing creativity in stressful situations.

Impact of Market Orientation, Green Innovation on Creative Performance: The Mediating Role of Sustainable Competitive Advantage

The purpose of this study to examining the correlation between marketing orientation and green innovation with sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) and creative performance. Creative performance being a dependent variable in this research is measured by two independent variables. Many Pakistani companies are doing activities in order to provide sustainable social development benefits to the society in which they are operating. These companies are investing and managing their market orientation and green innovation initiatives for the wellbeing of the society. This study also SCA. Using empirical testing the data gathered from consumers and information collected on companies engaged in market orientation and green innovation activities the research found out that that there is a very strong correlation between marketing orientation and green innovation and SCA and creative performance. The companies who are investing on marketing orientation and green innovation activities are enjoying good consumer loyalty and the Brands they operate enjoy healthy profits and sustainable market position. It is envisaged that the model tested in this research will be implied in the future empirical research concerning marketing orientation and green innovation with SCA and creative performance.