Question

Description of the Organization. Description of Factors that Contribute to the Creative Climate Description of the Creativity Assessment. Identify the Dimensions of Creativity in the Organization.

Answer 1

ORGANISATION

An Organisation is an entity which comprises of multiple people, such as institution or association that has a particular purpose. It should include information that will help interested external candidates better access their fit with the organisation and better understand the organisational goals and objectives.

CHARACTERSTICS OF AN ORGANISATION:

1. DIVISION OF WORK
2. CO-ORDINATION
3. COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIP
4. WELL DEFINED AUTHORITY
5. CONTINUITY
6. FLEXIBILITY

CREATIVE CLIMATE

A climate can be seen as various aspects of the physological atmosphere in a team and surrounding organizational environment.

Significance components of the creative climate:

1. CHALLENGE: Creative tasks and challenges are the important components. Making the work challenging means designing jobs that are demanding, complex and interesting.

2. FLEXIBILITY AND RISK TAKING: A basic reality of creative endeavours is that they are inherently uncertain. Often there is no valid information that ensures that an idea or innovation is guranteed to succeed. Even a creative idea itself may not be practical enough to be realized into new product.

3. TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT: When top management supports, encouages innovation.

4. INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION: It means encouraging open and honest debate and discussion of ideas.

5. POSITIVE INTERPERSONAL COHESION: Creativity flurishes where employess perceive a sense of togetherness and cohesion and an absence of emotional conflict.

6. TRUST AND SAFETY: Transparency doesn't necessarily mean telling everyone everything, but it does mean being as open as possible with employees.

7. MISSION CLARITY: It is the critical aspect of creative climate that can be highly influenced by the leader. It is to make clear strategic decisions that set the context of innovation.

8. RESOURCES: Just as Innovation a risky endeavour, it can also be costly. Innovators need to perceive that the organization is willing to invest the time and money necessary to support innovation and implementation of these efforts.

CREATIVITY ASSESSMENT

Creativity Assessment is the mesaure to test the Individual potential. which is defined as one's ability to generate useful ideas. Creative Tests measure specific cognitive processes such as thinking divergently. making associations etc.

FOUR WAYS TO BE CREATIVE:

• Deliberate and Cognitive: People who possess deliberative and cognitive characterstics are purposeful. They have a great amount of knowledge about a particular subject and combine their skills and capabilities to prepare a course of action to achieve something. This type of creativity built when people work from a very long time in a particular area.
• Deliberate and Emotional: They led their work influenced by their state of emotions. They are very sensitive and emotional in nature. They prefer relatively quiet and personal time to reflect and they usually have a habit of diary writing.
• Spontaneous and cognitive: There are times when you spend a long time to crack a problem but can't think of any solution. It takes place when the conscious mind stops working and go to relax and unconsious mind gets a chance to work.
• Spontaneous and Emotional: It takes place in the "amygdala" part of the human brain. It is responsible for all emotional type of thinking in the human brain. it happen when conscious brain is testing.

FIVE CREATIVE METHODS OF CREATIVE THINKING:

• Evolution
• Synthesis
• Revolution
• Reapplication
• Changing Direction

DIMENSIONS OF CREATIVITY IN THE ORGANIZATION

There are 10 dimensions of Creativity in the Organization:

1. MOTIVATION: To do anything, people must feel motivated. The climate of the organization must provide the forces that keep people into deep motivation. 2 Keys to get motivated:

• Challenge and Involvement : The degree of which people involves in daily operations and long term goals.
• Playfulness and Humor: Relaxed atmosphere where jokes and laughter occur often.Fun at work. Easy going.

2. EMPOWERMENT: Once people are motivated to be creative, they need the environment they need to be creative.

3. FREEDOM: An Independence in behaviour. Taking initiatives.People can make choices on their own.

4. IDEA TIME: Amount of time can use and do use for elaborating ideas.

5. IDEA SUPPORT: The ways new ideas are treated- attentive, listened to, encouraged.People here receive support and encouagement when presenting new ideas.

6. DYNAMISM: Alongside a motivated and empowered organisation, a harder edge is needed that drives forward towards success.

7. ENERGY: Buzz and energy incudes the formal management and informal social leaders.

8. CONFLICTS: Personal and emotional tension, Conflict high.

9. DEBATES: Discussion of opposing opinions and sharing diversity. Many different points of view are shared here during discussion.

10. OPENNESS: When a level of trust, individuals an be open and frank with each other.

  

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