The objective of this paper was to empirically investigate through an industry survey, the impact of self-management leadership on the work environment dimensions that support creativity. The results of the study show a moderate and significant positive relationship between self-management leadership and the ‘stimulant’ dimensions of the work environment for creativity. The findings also indica...

the current study aims to examine and identify team performance dimensions and factors in iran’s public organizations. for this purpose, exploratory method was used and data were gathered through quantitative approach. the targeted population consisted of two parts including experts in the field and managers and experts in public organizations in ilam. the sample size included twelve (12) exper...

In this paper, we discuss creativity as a form of learning from the perspective of idea generation in the creative process. We analyze forms of creativity and present the statement-based creativity techniques. Based on these concepts a tool prototype IdeaTrigger is presented and verified. It shows the advantages for innovative activity, especially in collaborative environment. 1 Creative Work a...

Lack of creative ideas is always the biggest challenge that firms are facing in their innovative activity (Leimeister et al. 2009), and firms are increasing use crowdsourcing to capture diversity ideas from external people. Unfortunately, these crowdsourcing activities can sometime lead to ideas with less creativity than those ideas generated by internal employees (Blohm et al. 2011; Boudreau 2...

In today's knowledge economy, creativity is more important than ever. But many companies unwittingly employ managerial practices that kill it. How? By crushing their employees' intrinsic motivation--the strong internal desire to do something based on interests and passions. Managers don't kill creativity on purpose. Yet in the pursuit of productivity, efficiency, and control--all worthy busines...