Affect and Creativity at Work

Amabile, Teresa M.; Barsade, Sigal G.; Mueller, Jennifer; Staw, Barry M.

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“…As indicated affection and emotions (both positive and negative) have been shown to be linked with multiple cognitive, interpersonal outcome, and physiological activities (Fredrickson, 2001). Empirical studies in the field of creativity suggest that emotions (both positive and negative mood) have a significant role to enhance creativity at work too (George and Zhou, 2002;Amabile et al, 2005;Zhou and George, 2001). The broaden-and-build theory (Fredrickson, 1998) describes the meaning of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, love, happiness, and well-being.…”

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“…Previous studies indicated that there is a significant relationship between individual well-begin and creativity (Shalley et al, 2000). As indicated by prior studies positive mood plays a significant role in relationship between work environment and employees' health, safety, productivity and creativity (Fredrickson and Branigan, 2005;Harter et al, 2003;Shipton et al, 2006;Waugh and Fredrickson, 2006;Amabile et al, 2005). Previous studies also have supported the concept of positive emotion to enhance satisfaction, motivation and productivity at work (Martin, 2005).…”

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“…As mentioned earlier, positive emotions in the workplace help employees achieve beneficial outcomes including improve they attention and thinking, success, job enhancement, and creative outcome. So, one way to extend the scope of attention, increases insight, and promote creativity is through encouraging people's positive emotions and mood (Amabile et al, 2005;Fredrickson and Branigan, 2005).…”

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“…Satisfaction with work environment happened in situation when employees can meet their fundamental needs and can enhance their well-being and may positive mood and emotion (Choi, 2011;Lee, 2007;Rashid et al, 2009;Sundstrom et al, 1994;Veitch et al, 2007). Therefore since affection, feeling and emotions have a significant effect on individual creativity (Amabile et al, 2005;Fredrickson and Branigan, 2005), so satisfaction with work environment may have positive role to enhance individual creativity at work.…”

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Individual Control over the Physical Work Environment to Affect Creativity

Samani¹,

Rasid²,

Sofian³

2015

Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

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The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the background information regarding to the impact of personal control over the physical work environment on satisfaction with work environment and creativity at work. Today creativity has a significant and special place in business especially in innovative organizations which need creative people to generate new, and useful ideas for produce new products, services, work methods, systems etc. Moreover the design and appearance of workspace and individual ability to control the ambient conditions of the workplace have significant effect on their behavior, satisfaction and overall outcome including creativity. So the result of this study will contribute towards enhancing the understanding of the effect of office design to enhance employees' creativity.

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“…Consistent with this view, individuals indeed perform better when they experience PA (Amabile, Barsade, Mueller, & Staw, 2005;Isen, Daubman, & Nowicki, 1987;Wright, Cropanzano, & Meyer, 2004). These beneficial effects of PA are likely to be more apparent for complex cognitive tasks than for well-structured procedural tasks (Gillet et al, 2013;McGraw, 1978).…”

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Organizational nostalgia lowers turnover intentions by increasing work meaning: The moderating role of burnout.

Leunissen

Sedikides

Wildschut

et al. 2018

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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We report three studies addressing the relevance of organizational nostalgia for the meaning that employees ascribe to their work (work meaning). We hypothesized, and found, that organizational nostalgia enhances work meaning and thereby reduces turnover intentions. In Study 1, an employee survey, spontaneously experienced organizational nostalgia was associated with higher work meaning. In Study 2, an organizational-nostalgia induction increased work meaning, which subsequently predicted lowered turnover intentions. In Study 3, an organizational-nostalgia induction increased work meaning and thereby lowered turnover intentions, especially among employees who reported relatively high levels of burnout. When burnout is high, organizational nostalgia functions as a rich source of meaning that benefits employees' work experience. The Moderating Role of Burnout Most people have a strong need for meaningful work (Cartwright & Holmes, 2006; Pratt & Ashford, 2003;Steger, Littman-Ovadia, Miller, Menger, & Rothmann, 2013). Work meaning entails perceiving one's work as significant and meeting the psychological needs for personal growth and purpose (i.e., eudaimonic wellbeing). It entails a combination of experiencing positive meaning in one's work (i.e., the sense that one's work matters and is meaningful), seeing one's work as a path toward making meaning (i.e., the sense that one's work deepens understanding of one's self and the world), and perceiving one's work to contribute to the greater good (i.e., the sense that one can have a broader, positive impact on others through one's work) (Steger, Dik, & Duffy, 2012).Work meaning confers benefits to employees and their organization. For example, it fosters the sense that work is a key part of one's identity and a vital contributor to well-being (Arnold, Turner, Barling, Kelloway, & McKee, 2007;Harpaz & Fu, 2002). Employees who derive meaning from their work report greater job satisfaction, work unit cohesion, and organizational commitment (Kamdron, 2005;Nord, Brief, Atieh, & Doherty, 1990;Sparks & Schenk, 2001;Steger et al., 2012). On the other hand, low work meaning is associated with high turnover (Steger et al., 2012).With mounting evidence pointing to the merits of work meaning for employees and organizations, it becomes critical to understand its sources. In this article, we focus on one such source: organizational nostalgia. We propose that organizational nostalgia increases work meaning and, by so doing, lowers turnover intentions. We further argue that, if organizational nostalgia replenishes work meaning, it should be particularly beneficial to employees with depleted psychological resources, that is, those with high levels of burnout.Next, we present the rationale for these predictions. Organizational NostalgiaAccording to The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), nostalgia is "a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past" (p. 1266). Nostalgic recollections typically involve important personal experiences or landmark events from one's lif...

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Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension

Mirous¹,

Beeman²

2012

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

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Affect and Creativity at Work

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Individual Control over the Physical Work Environment to Affect Creativity

Individual Control over the Physical Work Environment to Affect Creativity

Organizational nostalgia lowers turnover intentions by increasing work meaning: The moderating role of burnout.

Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension

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