Employee creative performance: What makes it happen?

Employee creativity is critically important for most organizations, yet little is known about what promotes this creativity. Greg Oldham and Anne Cummings of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently addressed questions concerning employee creativity. They surveyed 171 employees of 2 m...

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Published in:Academy of Management perspectives 1997-02, Vol.11 (1), p.119-120
Main Author: Tabak, Filiz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Corporate culture
Creativity
Employees
Employment
Manufacturing
Personality
Personality traits
Studies
Supervision
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Summary:Employee creativity is critically important for most organizations, yet little is known about what promotes this creativity. Greg Oldham and Anne Cummings of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently addressed questions concerning employee creativity. They surveyed 171 employees of 2 manufacturing facilities regarding their personality characteristics, job complexity, supervisory style and intentions to quit. They found that creativity is a function of both the person and the organization and that organizations can follow an individualized management strategy to enhance creative performance.
ISSN:1558-9080
1943-4529
DOI:10.5465/ame.1997.9707100665