Perceived inclusion and team creativity climate: examining the role of learning climate and task interdependency

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the relationship between perceived inclusion (individual and group-level) and team creativity climate (TCC) and explore the role of team learning climate (TLC) and task interdependency in the above relationship. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected using questionnaires from 24 Indian organizations. The respondents were junior and middle-level employees (N = 303) working in small teams (n = 73). The cut-off criteria for sample team selection were at least three team members within a team had responded and at least 60% within-group response rate was achieved. Findings Perceived inclusion (PI) of employees had a positive influence on TCC via TLC. However, the negative effect of team-level differences in perceived inclusion (TPID) was also mediated by the learning climate. Task interdependency moderated the PI-TLC relationship in such a way that in a high task interdependency situation, the negative effect of TPID on learning climate is reduced, while in a low task interdependency situation, the negative effect is enhanced. Originality/value The current research has contributed to the limited literature on PI and team creativity. This paper has uniquely investigated TLC as an intervening variable in the PI-TCC relationship. The paper has encapsulated the theoretical and practical underpinnings of inclusion beliefs in the modern organizational context.

PENGARUH CREATIVITY CLIMATE TERHADAP PERCEIVED INNOVATION MELALUI WORK MOTIVATION PADA PT TELKOMSEL SURABAYA

This research has purpose to figure out influence creativity climate to perceived Innovation, its influence following passes through work motivation on PT Telkomsel Surabaya's employee. This research points on Lin's research and Liu (2012) one that gets title “Across is analysis of organizational creativity climate and perceived innovation's level”. Research is work on 68 persons as PT Telkomsel Surabaya's employee. Data collected by survey, library research, and questionair's distribution. Analyzed data through Path Analysis by AMOS Program. Result to point out that creativity climate having significant's influence to perceived innovation on PT Telkomsel Surabaya's employee. The score test proves that creativity climate having significant's influence to perceived innovation on PT Telkomsel Surabaya's employee, by probability as big as 0,023< 0,05. Hereafter creativity climate also having significant's influence to perceived innovation via work motivation. It was pointed out in by multiple of direct band coefficient creativity climate to work motivation which is 0,459 and work motivation to perceived innovation with point 0,262. Thus indirect coefficient point is 0.459 x 0,262 = 0,12.Keywords: creativity climate, perceived innovation, work motivation

Deep-level diversity and workgroup creativity: the role of creativity climate

Purpose This paper aims to explore the effect of perceived “self-to-team” deep-level diversity on team’s creative output from a social identity lens’ view. Design/methodology/approach An experimental study was designed (n = 30 in each experimental condition, namely, homogeneous, heterogeneous and mixed) and vignettes were used to manipulate the experimental conditions. Employees from four Indian organizations participated in the experimental study. Findings Results indicated that deep-level homogeneous group perceived higher team creative output as compared to the deep-level heterogeneous group. Perceived team creativity climate was found to mediate the effect of team diversity on team’s creative output. Further, it was observed that the quality of perceived creativity climate (positive and negative) moderated the relationship between diversity and team’s creative output. Practical implications The diversity–climate–creativity model presented in the paper may help managers to understand how “deep-level” group composition affects a group’s creative performance. The findings of this study may act as a platform for building effective diversity management policies. Originality/value The current research has contributed to the limited team diversity and creativity literature. Based on the experimental study, the paper has uniquely investigated team diversity and creativity link along with examining the role of a mediator (creativity climate) and moderator (quality climate) in the relationship. As the study was conducted in Indian settings, the findings were interpreted based on the typical Indian psycho-social characteristics.

Revealing Mediating Role of Creative Self –Efficacy between Climate for Creativity and Creativity: Empirical Evidence from R&D of IT Sector, Pakistan

This study disclosed the mediating role of creative self-efficacy (CSE) between climate for creativitydimensions and creativity. The dyadic relationship between boss-subordinate is considered to assess the constructs in time lags. The study sample was drawn from 408 research and development (R&D) employees from information technology (IT) sector, Pakistan. The adopted and adapted questionnaires were utilized to collect the data. The data were analyzed through partial least squares, structural equation modeling technique through SMART PLS 3.2 software. The findingsrevealed significantly positive effects of major dimensions of climate for creativity on employees' creativity. Moreover, creative self-efficacy is proved as a mediator between various dimensions of climate for creativity and creativity except for organizational encouragement, challenging work andorganizational impediments. Thus, practical and theoretical implications are provided for academicians and managers; particularly related to IT sector and generally related to other sectors in Pakistan. Keywords: Creativity, Climate for creativity, Creative Self-Efficacy

Developing a Framework Linking Organizational Creativity Climate, Knowledge Acquisition, and R&D Performance

R&D is the key for the knowledge-intensive and high value-added innovations in the firms. To expedite R&D activities, the Malaysian government increased its R&D expenditure to motivate R&D engineers to innovate, to engage actively in the commercialization of patents and the filing of intellectual property. This study aims to identify environmental factors that can intensify the R&D performance and increase the potential for innovations to be commercialized. Extensive literature review indicated that organizational creative climate influences R&D performance. Hence, organizational creative climate has been proposed as a significant predictor of R&D performance. However, inconsistent findings have been reported by various researchers. Therefore, knowledge acquisition capability is added as an intervening variable that can influence the relationship between organizational creative climate and R&D performance. To the researcher’s knowledge, no attempt has been made to integrate the organizational creative climate with knowledge acquisition and R&D performance. It is hoped that this study will result in a better understanding of the factors that can influence R&D performance, particularly among medical devices manufacturers.

Policy mobilities, politics and place: The making of financial urban futures

The comparative and extrospective nature of contemporary urban policy-making is one that has demanded our attention in recent years. Relatively long established and formal inter-urban networks of professionals of one sort or another have been joined by activists, consultants, financiers, lawyers and think tankers who have involved themselves in the arriving at, and making up of, urban policy. Through conferences, documents, knowledge banks, policy tourism, power-points and webinars, an emergent informational infrastructure has emerged to shape and structure the circulations and making of policy-making across a numbers of areas. From aging to creativity, climate change to drugs, education to transport, urban policies in different spheres have been rendered mobile. There is political work of adaptation, mediation and translation that has to be done to move policies from one location to another, of course. In some cases these policies appear in a range of locations, while in others they do not, a reminder – if one was needed – that those involved in the making up of policy are not always able to render all elements of the future under their control. This emphasis on the relational and territorial geographies of global-urban policy-making captures some of the issues facing those who lead cities. This paper sets out some of the intellectial challenges for those working on these issues, highlighting some potentially fruitful ways forward, illustrating the main arguments through the use of Tax Increment Financing, a financial value-capturing model.