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This article aims to review existing research on factors influencing employee creativity in workplace settings.

July 16, 2004

The Effects of Personal and Contextual Characteristics on Creativity: Where Should We Go from Here?

Key Points

This article aims to review existing research on factors influencing employee creativity in workplace settings.
Conducted a systematic review of empirical studies on employee creativity.
Integrated findings on personal and contextual characteristics affecting creativity.
Discussed methodological improvements needed for future research.
Identified under-researched determinants of employee creativity.
Highlighted significant challenges and unanswered questions in the field.
Proposed new directions for theory development in creativity studies.

Abstract

This article systematically reviews and integrates empirical research that has examined the personal and contextual characteristics that enhance or stifle employee creativity in the workplace. Based on our review, we discuss possible determinants of employee creativity that have received little research attention, describe several areas where substantial challenges and unanswered questions remain, present a number of new research directions for theory building, and identify methodological improvements needed in future studies of creativity in organizations.

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Shalley et al. (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd2da12f737f012599b46d https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jm.2004.06.007

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