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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"employee creativity"”.
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Factors affecting employee creativity in Islamic banking in Pakistan
… highlighted the need for more studies to focus employee creativity on staying competitive in this challenging market. Therefore, previous studies failed to discuss thoroughly cultural, behavioral, and internal factors affecting employee creativity, especially in Islamic banking. The current …
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Do Tight Deadlines and Dirty Diapers Fuel or Fizzle the Next Big Thing? The Differential Effect of Work and Non-Work Stressors on Employee Creativity
… built on production to one built on knowledge, employee creativity has become necessary for organizations seeking to gain and maintain profits. Therefore, the focus of this dissertation was to investigate how an employee’s social environment, specifically stressors from their work and non-work …
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An Investigation into the Relationship Between an Engineering Manager's Purpose-Seeking Beliefs and Behaviors and the Engineering Manager's Perception of Employee Creativity, Initiative and Purpose-Seeking Behavior
… in this attempt to predict and influence employee behavior, no objective evidence exists of a favorable return of investment. In fact, the primary impact of most extrinsic motivation might actually be <em>demotivation</em> – the opposite of the intended use.</p> <p>In this research the …
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Examining the factors influencing organizational creativity in professional sport organizations
… share, an innovative organization improves employee job satisfaction, employee self-efficacy and decreases turnover (Elskildsen & Dahlgaard, 2000; Valentine, Godkin, Fleischman, & Kidwell, 2011). However, professional sport organizations enhance or hinder creativity for many reasons. For …
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Employee Communication and Its Relation to Work Creativity: The Role of Relational Demography in Egocentric Networks
… information through communication can enhance employee creativity. However, previous research has yielded inconsistent and inconclusive results with some studies suggesting that communication has positive effects on employee creativity and other studies suggesting negative effects. I examine …
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Ethical leadership in firms: antecedents and consequences
… moral emotions as the antecedents (Model I) and employee creativity as the consequence (Model II) in two separate models. Specifically, drawing on empathy literature and moral affect theory of gratitude, Model I hypothesized that leaders' moral emotions (empathy and gratitude) should predict …
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The Radicalness of Employee Ideas: An Interactive Model of Co-Worker Networks and Problem-Solving Styles
… Yet the study clearly demonstrates that employee social structure is related to the initiation of organizational innovations, and that properties other than amount (i.e., the variation and availability) of social interaction are important. Results also suggest that research addressing …
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Enhancing creativity in a general work environment : the role of problem-solving demand
… cognitively demanding job attributes to promote employee creativity. However, it is not clear what specific type of cognitive demand is particularly important for creativity, what processes underpin the relationship between demanding job conditions and creativity and what factors lead to employee …
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Positivity: A key for enhancing creativity. Enhancing organizational creativity through positive leadership
This research explored how creativity can be enhanced through leadership. Specifically, what specific leader behaviour encourages employee creativity and why. Using a qualitative case-based study, nine interviews were conducted in three companies in the creative industry in Iceland: CCP, CAOZ and …
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Assessing the impact of transformational leadership, organizational climate, and personality on individual innovativeness at work
… to occur, the organization needs to encourage employee creativity. Furthermore, leaders in the organization also need to work with the employees to help guide and support them as they embark on the development of products and services. This study examined this organizational environment by …
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The Contributions of Support and Information From Work and Non -Work Others to Employees' Creative Performance
… workplace, influence the creative performance of employees at work. Specifically, the potential contributions to creative performance of six groups of others: supervisor, coworkers from home unit, coworkers from different units, customers/clients, family members and friends were investigated. The …
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Creativity in the language of business: A textual analysis of the managerial literature
… the implicit theories held by business regarding creativity. All 556 articles indexed individually under creativity headings in the Business Periodicals Index from 1958 to 1991 were analyzed in terms of author, audience, purpose, content, and style. Employee creativity appears to be the main …
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The Psychology of Collaborating and Co-Creating with Artificial Intelligence
… three chapters, explores the nexus between employee creativity, collaboration, and artificial intelligence (AI) in organizational settings. The broader motivation for this research stems from the growing presence of AI in knowledge and creative work, which raises fundamental theoretical and …
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Suggestion support system for healthcare facilities in Saudi Arabia: an assessment framework
… participation. Furthermore, a study showed that employee creativity and positive engagement remain crucial in successful suggestion system implementation. Therefore, simplicity is considered the critical success factor in any suggestion system development and implementation process. The goal of …
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Entrepreneurship Orientation and Firm Performance: The Mediating Effect of Dynamic Capabilities and Government Support to SME Businesses in Ghana [before doctoral defense]
… and services. Learning capabilities foster employee creativity and knowledge, supporting the implementation of innovative solutions, thereby improving firm performance. Thirdly, the study determines the moderating role of government support between sensing and learning capabilities and firm …
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The Extent to which the national and organisational Culture Contributes to Delays of Libyan Construction Projects
… NVIVO. The research involved 103 construction employees—80 men and 23 women. According to the descriptive study, most engineers in Libyan construction companies are university graduates, with some holding postgraduate degrees. They have been working for their company for an average of 5 years, …