Employee Creativity in Taiwan: An Application of Role Identity Theory

The distinctive effects of dual-level leadership behaviors on employees’ trust in leadership: An empirical study from China

“…The Cronbach's alphas for the five OCB dimensions were .87, .93, .84, .92, and .91, respectively. We adopted the 4-item scale from Farmer, Tierney, and Kung-Mcintyre (2003) to measure individual creativity behavior. The Cronbach's alpha for creativity was .96.…”

Multidimensional latent traits of perceived organizational innovation: Differences between Thai and Egyptian employees

“…Coworkers can positively influence creativity via encouragement . When Taiwanese employees perceived that coworkers expected them to be creative, their role identities as creative employees were stronger (Farmer et al, 2003). Madjar (2005) notes that before proposing an idea, employees need the reassurance from the relevant group of work-related others that it is acceptable and will not lead to exclusion from the group.…”

“…The context in which an individual employee works influences his/her internal motivation, which then, subsequently, influences creative achievements. The literature (see, for example, Amabile, 1988Amabile, , 1996Farmer et al, 2003;Mumford, Scott, Gaddis & Strange, 2002;Von Krogh, Ichijo & Nonaka, 2000) suggests that creative behavior is influenced by contextual factors which we call "workplace atmosphere. "…”

“…The impact of employees' self-perception regarding their individual creativity is emerging as an alternative approach (Egan, 2005). For example, in a Taiwanese study, Farmer et al (2003) explored the concept of creative role identity, which they defined as whether individuals viewed themselves as creative. Their results suggested that three variables predicted creative role identity: creative expectations from coworkers, self-views of creative behavior, and exposure to US culture.…”

Research on the Impacts of Time—Anticipatory Stress on Creativity

“…The factors influencing the creativity level can mainly be divided into personal factors and situational factors. Personality factors, such as personality [11], role identity [12], and creativity self-efficacy [13]. While situational factors include working situation [13], team learning [14], organizational and team innovation [15] and so on.…”