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Abstract Individual differences influencing how the condition in an organization are experienced can depend on a variety of factors. Differences in personality, for example, and variations in individual creative capacity are probably influential. This study concentrated on university teachers at Orebro University in Sweden, and dealt first with how their creative functioning, defined within the percept-genetic frame of reference, was related to their experiences of organizational conditions, including organizational outcomes as creativity and productivity. The academic organization was defined, described, and measured in terms of organizational structure, culture, climate, resources, workload pressure, and leadership style. Because the results showed that creative functioning was connected with 1 of the organizational structural factors, the second part of the study concentrated on how an experience of the university as open, manifold, and complex was related to percept-genetic personality descriptions about anxiety and defense against anxiety and to the individual's way of balancing subjective and objective influences. Viewed from the perspective of personality the results showed that the crucial variable in the university organization was openness and diversity. Those who regard this quality to be particularly typical of the university were likely to be creative, open both to their emotional resources and fantasy and to the possibilities offered by the work situation. Even if easily aroused, they were capable of transforming their anxiety in a constructive direction.
Ryhammar et al. (Fri,) studied this question.