Boosting Indonesia’S Creative Industries: Identification of People’S Characteristics and Creative Behaviour

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to suggest an empirical model to assess personal characteristics and creative behaviour among creative workers in Indonesia’s creative industries. It is critical for people to do their best to ensure and realise that creativity is one of the most important elements in order to achieve high performance. Although a few previous studies have focused on the understanding of how the myriad of interacting potential creators can foster their performance, the characteristics and behaviour patterns of Indonesia’s creative workers are not well identified yet. Considering this, a new measure has been developed and evaluated with a group of creative workers (N = 220). This study presents data supporting the reliability (internal consistency) and validity (criterion and construction) of this multidimensional instrument. The results of factor analysis indicated a fivefactor solution. These factors demonstrated adequate internal consistency and correlations with the established measures of the Big-Five personality (e.g. the NEO-FFI of Costa & McCrae 1992). It was found that the most important elements determining the characteristics of creative people are enthusiasm, a low depression level, self-discipline, trust, and ideas.

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Creativity-Relevant Personal Characteristics among Indonesia Creative Workers

The Winners ◽

10.21512/tw.v15i2.627 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 140

Author(s):

Nugroho J. Setiadi ◽

Rudy Aryanto

Keyword(s):

Factor Model ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Creative Industry ◽

Art And Design ◽

Instrument Validity ◽

Validity Criterion ◽

Creative Workers ◽

And Behavior ◽

Constituent Elements

The study aims to identify Creativity-relevant Personal Characteristics among creative workers in Indonesia’s creative industry. Identification of the constituent elements of the nature of the changes needs to be measured. Researchers have advocated replacing creativity-relevant personal characteristics based on the five-factor model to investigate how individual differences stimulate creativity. This study presents data supporting reliability (internal consistency) and validity (criterion and construct) of the instrument. Validity of the instrument is based on the content validity involving art and design experts. The 220 creative workers from several creative industry firms in Indonesia participated as samples in this research. Results of a factor analysis indicated a five factor solution of creative characteristics and behavior. Discussion of findings and the most important ways in which individuals differ in their enduring emotional, interpersonal, experiential, attitudinal, and motivational styles for stimulating creativity are presented.

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Who Likes What Kind of News? The Relationship Between Characteristics of Media Consumers and News Interest

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/21582440211003089 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 215824402110030

Author(s):

Kai Kaspar ◽

Lisa Anna Marie Fuchs

Keyword(s):

Big Five ◽

Information Filtering ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Regression Analyses ◽

Uses And Gratification ◽

German Speaking ◽

Explained Variance ◽

The Relationship

Stimulated by the uses-and-gratification approach, this study examined the joint relation of several consumer characteristics to news interest. In total, 1,546 German-speaking participants rated their interest in 15 major news categories and several personal characteristics, including gender, age, the Big Five personality traits, self-esteem, as well as general positive and negative affect. Regression analyses examined the amount of interindividual variance in news interest that can be explained by this set of consumer characteristics. Overall, the amount of explained variance differed remarkably across news categories, ranging from 4% for entertainment-related news to 25% for news about technology. The most powerful explaining variables were participants’ gender, age, openness to experiences, and their amount of general positive affect. The results suggest that news interest should be defined and operationalized as a concept with multiple facets covering a huge range of content. Also, the results are important for media producers and journalists with respect to the conflict between increased need gratification of consumers and information filtering via personalized news content.

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Translation, adaptation, and validation of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) for use in Japan: A multicenter cross-sectional study

10.1101/2020.05.14.20102442 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Takuya Aoki ◽

Yosuke Yamamoto ◽

Tomoaki Nakata

Keyword(s):

Patient Experience ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Healthcare Providers ◽

Internal Consistency Reliability ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Validity Criterion ◽

Hospital Consumer Assessment ◽

Consumer Assessment

Objectives. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) is a well-established and internationally recognized scale for measuring patient experience with hospital inpatient care. This study aimed to develop a Japanese version of the HCAHPS and to examine its structural validity, criterion-related validity, and internal consistency reliability. Design. Multicenter cross-sectional study. Setting. A total of 48 hospitals in Japan. Participants. Patients aged ≥ 16 years who were discharged from the participating hospitals. Results. We translated the HCAHPS into Japanese according to the guidelines. Psychometric properties were examined using data from 6,522 patients. A confirmatory factor analysis showed excellent goodness of fit of the same factor structure as that of the original HCAHPS, with the following composites: communication with nurses, communication with doctors, responsiveness of hospital staff, hospital environment, communication about medicines, and discharge information. All hospital-level Pearson correlation coefficients between the Japanese HCAHPS composites and overall hospital rating exceeded the criteria. Results of inter-item correlations indicated adequate internal consistency reliability. Conclusions. We developed the Japanese HCAHPS, and evaluated its structural validity, criterion-related validity, and internal consistency reliability. This scale could be used for quality improvement based on the assessment of patient experience with hospital care and for health services research in Japan.

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Management Foundations and Global Readiness Index of School Heads of the Philippines

JPAIR Multidisciplinary Research ◽

10.7719/jpair.v7i1.160 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Fructuoso C. Baliton

Keyword(s):

Organizational Behavior ◽

Cultural Sensitivity ◽

Global Economy ◽

High Performance ◽

Correlation Method ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

The Philippines ◽

Chi Square ◽

Managerial Skills ◽

School Heads

An understanding of personality contributes to an understanding of organizational behavior in that we expect a predictable interplay between an individual’s personality and his or her tendency to behave in certain ways (Jacob 1995). Most organizations today must achieve high performance in the context of a competitive and complex global environment (Porter 1998). This descriptive survey correlation method of research aimed to determine whether the management foundations of secondary school heads were related to their global readiness index. The findings of this study may serve as a basis to take their strong personal characteristics as skills that should be nurtured and to take their good points as starting points to consider where and how to further pursue the development of their managerial skills and competencies. This may also serve as a feedback to work hard to grow and develop continually in the management foundations considering that their successes as 21st century managers may well rest on an initial awareness of the importance of these basic management foundations and that they must be comfortable with the global economy and the global diversity that it holds. Chi-square established that their management foundations are not significantly related to their global readiness index. Keywords – management, personal characteristics, globalization, global awareness and cultural sensitivity

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The Influence of Personality Traits on Software Engineering and its Applications

Agile Estimation Techniques and Innovative Approaches to Software Process Improvement - Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-5182-1.ch006 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 83-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Adrián Casado-Rivas ◽

Manuel Muñoz Archidona

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Personality Traits ◽

High Performance ◽

Project Managers ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Software Project ◽

Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽

Team Members ◽

Engineering Teams ◽

Software Engineers

In Software Engineering, personality traits have helped to better understand the human factor. In this chapter, the authors give an overview of important personality traits theories that have influenced Software Engineering and have been widely adopted. The theories considered are Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Big Five Personality Traits, and Belbin Roles. The influence of personality traits has provided remarkable benefits to Software Engineering, especially in the making of teams. For software project managers, it is useful to know what set of soft skills correlates to a specific team role so as to analyze how personality traits have contributed to high performance and cohesive software engineering teams. The study of software engineers’ personality traits also helps to motivate team members. Creating teams that involve compatible individuals, each working on tasks that suit them, and having a motivated team improves team performance, productivity, and reduces project costs.

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Personal characteristics and applicants’ perceptions of procedural fairness in a selection context

Management Decision ◽

10.1108/md-01-2018-0088 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 687-704

Author(s):

Qingjuan Wang ◽

Rick D. Hackett ◽

Yiming Zhang ◽

Xun Cui

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Personnel Selection ◽

Eastern China ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Procedural Fairness ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Content Type ◽

Justice Perceptions ◽

Multinational Businesses ◽

The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine a varied set of personal characteristics (i.e. cultural values tied to Confucianism, Big Five personality attributes and test experience) for their combined ability to predict job applicants’ expected and experienced procedural fairness in the context of personnel selection. Design/methodology/approach A total of 324 applicants were surveyed as part of a process to select entry-level positions at a large IT manufacturing company in eastern China. Data were gathered in two waves, such that applicants’ personal characteristics and fairness expectations were obtained prior to their perceptions of procedural fairness, which were collected after the selection interview. Findings Confucian values, neuroticism, conscientiousness and test experience all predicted applicants’ procedural fairness expectations. Only test experience had both direct and indirect effects on procedural justice perceptions. All other effects involving personal characteristics and experience of procedural fairness were mediated by applicants’ fairness expectations. Research limitations/implications The demonstration of the impact of a varied set of personal characteristics on applicants’ perceptions of procedural fairness is consistent with theory-driven models intended to understand and predict these perceptions. The findings suggest, among other considerations, that multinational businesses cannot assume that a standardized approach to selection will be viewed in the same manner by applicants across national contexts. Originality/value The authors show, in an operational employee selection context, how a varied set of personal characteristics can usefully combine to predict applicants’ procedural fairness expectations, as well as their experience of procedural fairness.

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Devalued women, valued men: motherhood, class and neoliberal feminism in the creative media industries

Media Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0163443719876537 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 537-553 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tamsyn Dent

Keyword(s):

Creative Industries ◽

Creative Industry ◽

Creative Workers ◽

Direct Contrast ◽

Creative Media ◽

Individual Choices ◽

The Relationship ◽

Second Wave ◽

Problematic Claim ◽

Determining Factor

This article contributes to the literature on gender inequality in the creative workforce. Motherhood has been attributed as a determining factor of female under-employment or unequal representation in the creative industries, a problematic claim that distracts attention from operational excluding structures. The article considers why motherhood has become an identified explanation for female under-representation by considering the question: what sort of mother are we referring to when we talk of the creative worker? Revising the genealogy of literature on maternal practice from second wave up to recent concepts of neoliberal feminism, this article explores how class-based practices associated with motherhood have an influence on how all women are valued as creative workers. This is in direct contrast to men whose employment value increases following parenthood. The term ‘value’ explores how individual choices emerge in response to wider structural issues, providing a framework to consider the relationship between gender and class in the context of the neoliberal, creative industry.

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Creative Chinese Countryside? Township-Village Enterprises as Incubators

Built Heritage ◽

10.1186/bf03545720 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 72-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mengchuan Liu ◽

Yi-Wen Wang ◽

Christian Nolf

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Social Inclusion ◽

Rural China ◽

Creative Industries ◽

Cultural Meanings ◽

Creative People ◽

Public And Private ◽

Economic Entity ◽

Industrial Complexes ◽

Western Ireland

AbstractSince the turn of the century, creative industries have displayed considerable power in transforming the social and economic landscapes of most global metropolises, including such Chinese mega-cities as Beijing and Shanghai. However, the story of creative industries does not end there. Recent studies have focused on the role of creative sector in the countryside. It has been argued that the creative sector can effectively contribute to diversifying socio-economic development in rural areas by increasing employment, enhancing the quality of life, and promoting social inclusion and community development. With the aim to chart new paths for China’s rural revitalisation and address the country’s ‘three rural issues’ (i.e. agriculture, rural areas and farmers), this paper examines the potentials and challenges to developing the creative sector in rural China. It first reviews the academic debate about expanding the development of creative industries from urban to rural areas. Drawing on the research and classification of creative industries in rural Western Ireland, this study identifies industries characterised by ‘content creation and production’ and ‘creative design services’, which would have potential in rural China. The major impediments to and crucial factors for developing rural creative industries in China are investigated and appraised within the framework of ‘creative people, creative place, and creative support’. After analysing emerging practices in Jiangsu Province, this paper highlights the potential of abandoned industrial complexes in rural parts of China’s coastal regions, which can act as incubators for creative industries. Those former manufacturing plants are the remains of township-village enterprises (TVEs), which constituted part of China’s flagship policy for rural regeneration in the 1980s. Not only do they have special architectural attributes favourable for creative production, but also represent the socio-economic entity of the village collective and are the carriers of cultural meanings and memories. This paper concludes with a set of recommendations for both public and private sectors. It calls for a more proactive stance from governments to promote the creative sector in rural areas and revitalise rural economies and communities through the reuse or regeneration of former TVEs.

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AT HOME IN SHENZHEN? HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND HOUSING PREFERENCES OF CREATIVE WORKERS IN A WANNABE CREATIVE CITY

Creativity Studies ◽

10.3846/23450479.2016.1203832 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 160-176

Author(s):

Marco BONTJE

Keyword(s):

Mass Production ◽

Creative Industries ◽

Housing Situation ◽

Housing Policies ◽

Residential Preferences ◽

Economic Diversity ◽

Creative City ◽

Creative Workers ◽

Recent Graduates ◽

Creative Talent

Shenzhen grew fast as a city of industrial mass-production, but is transforming to an innovative and creative city. Shenzhen’s policies to encourage the creative industries are mostly aimed at companies and entrepreneurs. To really become an attractive creative city, housing policies for creative talent should be added. This article reports on an interview-based analysis of the housing situation and residential preferences of creative workers in Shenzhen. While creatives with good salaries have no problems finding attractive homes and neighbourhoods in Shenzhen, there is a shortage of affordable neighbourhoods meeting the demands of recent graduates and starting creatives. Shenzhen’s creative city strategy should take the socio-economic diversity of creative workers into account.

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Health improvement framework for actionable treatment planning using a surrogate Bayesian model

Nature Communications ◽

10.1038/s41467-021-23319-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Kazuki Nakamura ◽

Ryosuke Kojima ◽

Eiichiro Uchino ◽

Koh Ono ◽

Motoko Yanagita ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Bayesian Model ◽

High Performance ◽

Clinical Decision Making ◽

Personal Characteristics ◽

Clinical Decision ◽

Health Improvement ◽

Primary Concern ◽

Lower Systolic Blood Pressure ◽

Treatment Processes

AbstractClinical decision-making regarding treatments based on personal characteristics leads to effective health improvements. Machine learning (ML) has been the primary concern of diagnosis support according to comprehensive patient information. A prominent issue is the development of objective treatment processes in clinical situations. This study proposes a framework to plan treatment processes in a data-driven manner. A key point of the framework is the evaluation of the actionability for personal health improvements by using a surrogate Bayesian model in addition to a high-performance nonlinear ML model. We first evaluate the framework from the viewpoint of its methodology using a synthetic dataset. Subsequently, the framework is applied to an actual health checkup dataset comprising data from 3132 participants, to lower systolic blood pressure and risk of chronic kidney disease at the individual level. We confirm that the computed treatment processes are actionable and consistent with clinical knowledge for improving these values. We also show that the improvement processes presented by the framework can be clinically informative. These results demonstrate that our framework can contribute toward decision-making in the medical field, providing clinicians with deeper insights.

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