To maximize employee performance in today’s increasingly competitive environment, companies must enhance individual creativity through the effective management of organizational network structures and learning cultures. This study is an empirical analysis of how firms should design these structures and improve individual creativity according to employees’ working styles. We propose a research m...

aim and background: education has devoted a great amount of the budget of every country to itself. it is necessary to provide an appropriate organizational climate and calm and stress less environment in educational section to improve the organizational effectiveness of personnel, which will finally lead to the their creativity. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship betw...

this study aimed at estimating the rate of creativity of sport organization managers regarding organizational culture. 46 managers in physical education office of east azerbaijan voluntary filled out organizational culture of robbins, rendsip creativity and demographic questionnaires. statistical analysis of data (e.g. pearson correlation coefficient) indicated a significant relationship betwee...

Purpose – The overall purpose of this research is to further the understanding of how future marketing managers in Egypt and the UK perceive creativity barriers. The paper also examines the construct validity of the barriers to creativity scale in an Arab non-Western context. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 125 respondents was used to achieve the research purpose. Respondents complete...

A growing body of literature discusses the importance of creativity in organizations. Together with the reliance of creativity on knowledge, and the increasing use of information systems (IS) as means to support organizational knowledge, research of the relationship between IS, knowledge and creativity in organizations seems to be in order. In this paper, evidence from case studies of real-worl...

This research explores the relationship between organizational support for creativity and perceived usefulness of a knowledge management system (KMS) on project or task effectiveness. It has been shown that organizational support for creativity positively affects the innovativeness of a project (i.e., Amabile, 1996). Moreover, organizations are spending large amounts to build KMSs which allow t...

In today’s highly dynamic business environment, organizational creativity is one of the most important sources of competitive advantage. Although the unpredictability of creativity makes it difficult to plan for, it may still be possible to facilitate knowledge creation given that we understand what affects it. In this paper, seven enabling factors of organizational creativity are identified an...

Many calls for reengineering suggest that information technology (IT) can be employed to enable significant organizational change. However, organizational inertia typically inhibits such change, resulting in IT development that reflects the organizational status quo. Of interest, then, are strategies and techniques that can be employed to support IT-enabled reengineering. Key to such reengineer...