Qualities of Work Environments That Promote Perceived Support for Creativity
By D. Stokols, Chip Clitheroe, Mary Zmuidzinas. 2002
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This article examines physical and social predictors of perceived support for creativity in the workplace and their effects on important personal and organizational outcomes. Recent conceptualizations of creativity suggest that the physical environment plays a key role in facilitating the development of creative processes and products, yet prior studies have given little attention to demonstrating empirical links between physical and social features of the workplace and employees' subjective experiences of creativity. This study examined employees' perceptions of support for creativity at work as a possible mediator of the relationships between objective measures of distracting stimuli and subjective appraisals of social climate, on the one hand, and self-reported levels of job satisfaction and personal stress, on the other. Results indicated that both recorded levels of environmental distraction and self-reports of social climate are significantly linked to employees' perceptions of support for creativity at work. Moreover, employees' appraisals of support for creativity at work mediate the relationships between their perceptions of social climate and self-reported job satisfaction, social climate and stress, and between environmental distraction and job satisfaction.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Work environment and atmosphere: The role of organizational support in the creativity performance of tourism and hospitality organizations (2015, unknown): “…found a positive relationship between the quality of the work environment and creativity in campus-based departments and non-university companies (Stokols et al., 2002), in IT and telecommunications service providers (Rice, 2006), and in civil engineering divisions (Schepers and Van den Berg,…”
- Knowledge workers' creativity and the role of the physical work environment (2011, background): “Aiello et al. (1977) Stokols et al. (2002) 15 Window view to nature Having visual access from the work environment to the outer natural environment (e.g. trees, plants).”
- Person–Environment Fit and Creative Behavior: Differential Impacts of Supplies–Values and Demands–Abilities Versions of Fit (2004, background): “…aspects including physical characteristics of the workplace, organizational structure and policy, and job characteristics (Oldham & Cummings, 1996; Stokols et al., 2002), climate for creativity, particularly psychological climate as perceived by individuals, has most often been examined as a…”
- The impact of the behavioural environment on office productivity (2007, background): “If office environments are to act as conduits for knowledge creation and transfer, then the debate widens to include the notion that work environments can be created to support creativity ( Stokols et al. , 2002”