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Theses and Dissertations

2013

Creativity

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An Integrated View Of Personal, Relational, And Organizational Resources: How They Ignite Creative Behavior At Work, Dilek Gulistan Yunlu May 2013

An Integrated View Of Personal, Relational, And Organizational Resources: How They Ignite Creative Behavior At Work, Dilek Gulistan Yunlu

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Individual creativity is an important antecedent of organizational innovation (Amabile, 1988; Woodman, Sawyer, and Griffin, 1993; Shalley, Zhou, & Oldham 2004). In the current hypercompetitive, global work environment, more managers recognize that in order to remain competitive, they need their employees to be engaged in their work and demonstrate creative behaviors (Mumford, Scott, Gaddis, & Strange, 2002). Therefore, it is important to understand the mechanisms by which individuals demonstrate creative behaviors at work, especially by utilizing the resources that are available to them to facilitate creativity and overcoming the demands that hinder their creative behavior at work.

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