Creativity Pressure Under Workplace Discrimination

Abstract

Is there any discrimination in the workplace? Research conducted by numerous authors (Ding, et al., 2019;Munro and Phillips, 2020;Tahir, 2020) indicates that it is. Also, discrimination affects employees' performance, innovation and creativity. Talking about creativity, it is broadly defined as an individual or group process that involves the production of results that are considered both new, original or useful and appropriate in a social context. This research aims to prove the pressure felt by employees when they feel discriminated from the workplace.By applying quantitative research, our results highlighted the following: most employees feel discriminated on the basis of age, gender, social origin, political opinion and sexual orientation. Women between ages of 21 and 30 feel very discriminated in terms of development and promotion in their current job; and 11% of all respondents feel intimidated by their superiors. There is a direct and strong correlation between discrimination in the workplace and employee creativity, as evidenced by the application of the Pearson correlation coefficient to the undertaken research. Thus, the more discriminated they feel, the more employees will no longer use creativity to find innovative solutions for the company. Reducing discrimination it from the workplace will have beneficial effects on employee innovation and creativity, as evidenced by our research.