scholarly journals Are individual-level factors necessary for creativity? A necessary condition analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxence Mercier ◽  
Todd Lubart
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Small Effect Size ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

Are individual-level factors necessary for creativity to occur in the workplace ? Using a novel statistical approach, Necessary Condition Analysis, we tested empirically the hypothesis that individual factors (conative factors, drivers, and creative process engagement) were critical to creativity in the workplace, using a sample of 1384 workers in France. We examined three known conative factors of creativity: openness to experience, creative personality, and creative personal identity. We examined three types of drivers: intrinsic motivation, job self-efficacy and creative self-efficacy. Additionally, we examined creative process engagement. We observed that all conative factors were necessary for creativity, even though they each showed small effect sizes. We found a similar small effect size for creative process engagement. We found that creative self-efficacy was a critical driver for creativity: an employee will not be able to achieve high creative performance if he or she does not have strong confidence about his or her creative capacities, regardless of other factors. However, neither job self-efficacy nor intrinsic motivation proved to be necessary for creativity: their absence can be compensated by other factors. Our findings highlight the need to distinguish between what makes a variable “important” or “necessary”, in the field of creativity and innovation.

scholarly journals CREATIVE PERFORMANCE: DAMPAK WORK ENVIRONMENT DAN CREATIVE SELF-EFFICACY (Studi Kasus di PT. Putra Mojo Maju Jaya Abadi

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-299
Author(s):  
Sesilya Kempa ◽  
Stephen Eric
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Creative Self

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dampak work environment (WE) terhadap creative performance (CP) melalui mediasi creative self-efficacy (CSE) karyawan PT. Putra Mojo Maju Jaya Abadi. Jenis penelitian ini termasuk dalam jenis penelitian kuantitatif. Sampel yang digunakan adalah sebanyak 67 responden dengan teknik purposive sampling. Proses perhitungan dan analisis penelitian menggunakan progam aplikasi software Partial Least Square (PLS). Metode pengumpulan data penelitian dilakukan dengan penyebaran kuisioner dengan menggunakan skala likert lima poin sebagai alat ukur. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kualitas lingkungan kerja akan mempengaruhi tingginya efikasi diri kreatif yang selanjutnya akan mempengaruhi kreativitas seseorang dalam bekerja. Namun kualitas lingkungan kerja tidak mempengaruhi langsung creative performance seseorang.

scholarly journals Examining the Effects of Individual's Polychronicity and Supervisor's Management Style on Creative Self-Efficacy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Xiaofang Ma
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Government School ◽  
Structure Interaction ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Creative Self

<p>This research focuses on the area of individuals' creative self-efficacy studies in the workplace. Creative self-efficacy is the self belief of whether one has the capacity to perform the job creatively. In the literature, it has been established as an important factor affecting individual's creative performance. However, studies on the variables which can affect creative self-efficacy are rare. The objectives of this research are to examine whether individual polychronicity can affect creative self-efficacy; whether supervisors' supportive and non-controlling management style can influence creative self-efficacy; and whether organisational environmental factors (organisational structure, interaction with co-workers, risk-taking orientation, and a trusting and caring atmosphere) can impact creative self-efficacy. This research argues that supervisory management style can affect organisational environmental factors. Paper questionnaires and web-based surveys were conducted among 123 post-experienced students from Victoria Management School, School of Government, School of Information Management, and Centre for Continuing Education in Victoria University of Wellington. The research findings suggest that individual polychronicity, supervisory management style, interaction with co-workers and risk-taking orientation are significantly associated with individuals' creative self-efficacy at workplace. As expected, supervisory management style is significantly correlated with organisational structure, interaction with co-workers, risk-taking orientation, and a trusting and caring atmosphere. The results also show that factors like individualistic/collectivistic culture and the appointment of people in the management/non-management position can affect creative self-efficacy. Theoretically, this research has contribution to the creative self-efficacy and creative performance studies, polychronicity studies and "fit" theory between employees and organisational environment. Practically, organisations that want employees to have high creative self-efficacy may recruit polychronic individuals, provide positive creative environment, and encourage supervisors to have supportive and non-controlling management styles.</p>

Assessing teacher innovations: expert versus peer ratings

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijaya Sherry Chand ◽  
Samvet Kuril ◽  
Ketan Satish Deshmukh ◽  
Rukmini Manasa Avadhanam
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Learning Orientation ◽  
Innovative Behavior ◽  
Peer Ratings ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Expert Ratings

PurposeThe growing recognition of the role of teacher innovative behavior in educational improvement has led to more systematic assessment of teacher-driven innovations, usually through expert panels. Innovative peer-teachers may be more closely aligned with the correlates of teacher innovative behavior than experts, and hence their participation in such panels might make the process more robust. Hence, the authors ask, “Do expert and peer assessments relate to individual-related correlates of innovative teacher behavior differently?”Design/methodology/approachInnovations of 347 teachers in India were assessed by an expert panel and a peer-teacher panel using the consensual technique of rating innovations. Structural equation modeling was used to study the relationships of the ratings with the innovative teachers' self-reported creative self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, learning orientation and proactive personality.FindingsExpert ratings were significantly related to creative self-efficacy beliefs (β = 0.53, p < 0.05), whereas peer ratings were not. Peer ratings were significantly related to learning orientation (β = 0.19, p < 0.05), whereas expert ratings were not. Also, expert ratings were found to be indirectly associated with teachers' proactive personality and intrinsic motivation via creative self-efficacy beliefs; peer ratings were not associated with proactive personality.Originality/valueThe paper, through a robust methodology that relates expert and peer assessments with individual-related correlates of innovative behavior, makes a case for educational innovation managers to consider mixed panels of experts and innovative teacher-peers to make the assessment process more robust.

The curvilinear relationship between within-person creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance: the moderating role of approach/avoidance motivations

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 2073-2091
Author(s):  
Ci-Rong Li ◽  
Yanyu Yang ◽  
Chen-Ju Lin ◽  
Ying Xu
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Level Model ◽  
Approach Avoidance ◽  
Creative Self

PurposeThis research adopts a dynamic self-regulation framework to test whether there is a curvilinear relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance at the within-person level. Furthermore, to establish a boundary condition of the predicted relationship, the authors build a cross-level model and examine how approach motivation and avoidance motivation moderate the complex relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance.Design/methodology/approachTo obtain results from a within-person analysis, the authors collect multi-source data from 125 technicians who provided monthly reports over an 8-month period.FindingsThe authors find evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance at the within-person level and differential moderating effects of approach/avoidance motivations.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first to challenge the assumption that creative self-efficacy always has a positive linear relationship with creativity. It provides a more complete view of the complex pattern between creative self-efficacy and creativity at the within-person level.

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