Social Factors of Work-Environment Creativity

Authors: Schepers, Paul; Berg, Peter T.

Source: Journal of Business and Psychology, Volume 21, Number 3, March 2007 , pp. 407-428(22)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

The aim of this study was to investigate how work-environment creativity is related to the social factors of: organizational-culture perceptions, employee participation, knowledge sharing, and procedural justice. Questionnaires were administered to 154 employees of a government organization. Because the employees within a department worked in diverse teams and their work environments may have varied, our analysis was conducted at the level of the individual. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that work-environment creativity was related to adhocracy-culture perceptions, employee participation, and knowledge sharing; that knowledge sharing was related to cooperative-team perceptions and procedural justice; and that knowledge sharing mediated the relationships of cooperative-team perceptions and procedural justice with work-environment creativity. Practical implications of the results are discussed.

Keywords: creativity; social factors; organizational culture; participation; procedural justice

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10869-006-9035-4

Affiliations: 1: Email: j.p.schepers@avv.rws.minvenw.nl

Publication date: 2007-03-01