Definition
Organizational climate is a relatively stable set of physical, social-psychological, administrative, and economic factors characterizing the conditions for work and influencing on employees’ professional activities within an organization domain.
Introduction
The alteration of a company’s work environment for creativity represents the most important way to develop employees’ creativity and to manage this process. For maintenance of the “continuous creativity” strategy, it is necessary to create a favorable organizational and psychological climate for creativity, not only for “creative employees” (such as inventors, managers, and engineers), but also for all workers. For example, Japanese firms support and accumulate not only inventions but any “fine” ideas (“secondary innovations”) as well. These secondary innovations are the main source of competitiveness since they promote constant...
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Dubina, I.N. (2017). Measuring Organizational Climate for Creativity and Innovation. In: Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6616-1_44-2
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