Question

explore how motivation might be related to creativity within an organisation and the wider implications for organisational success.

• How encouraging of creativity are most workplaces? Please provide two (2) examples of organisations that you believe to be encouraging of creativity and why.
• What does that suggest for the firm’s approach to innovation?

Answer 1

Motivation that relates to creativity within the organization must be intresting, involving, exciting, satisfying, and challenging and motivated by promises of rewards, handling peers competition and evaluation.

It can lead to organizational success through Expertise, creativity, task motivation and creativity skills.

Creativity within the organization brings self discipline, improves cognitive flexibility and intellectual independence along with reducing the frustration levels at work.

Motivations such as rewards, recognition and feedback enhances some aspects of performance.

There are some factors that are related to creative work outcomes are

1. Positive challenge

2. Organisational encouragement

3. Rewards and recognition

4. Work group support.

5. Freedom at work

6. Supervisory support and encouragement.

7. Sufficient resources

These factors leads to higher creativity at work.

There must be good orientation towards innovation which should be clearly communicated. There are various other factors where organisations motivate thenselves to innovate are

1. Development of new ideas.

2. Good communication of thoughts and data.

3. Reward and recognition for creative work.

4. Fair evaluation of work.

5. Active flow of ideas

There are vious organisations that creates a cool and creative environment that enables employees to contribute and build on a project, increases their engagement, interaction, passion, motivation, problem solving, productivity, team bonding and collaboration.

Examples of organisations that believes to be encouraging of creativity.

1. Google- It offers active communication and flow of ideas among management, freedom, fair evaluation, rewards and recognition, financial incentives, free meals, good balance between work life and personal life to limit stress, arranges pleasant work space.

2. Twitter- it providess team oriented and creative work environment where employees are regularly motivated through corporate goal and other realted activities such as yoga classes. And provides open and creative organizational culture.