The Potential Role of the Physical Environment in Fostering Creativity

McCoy, Janetta Mitchell; Evans, Gary W.

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“…For example, Alencar & Bruno-Faria (1997) report that an agreeable physical environment with adequate light, furniture, space and ventilation can stimulate creativity, whereas an environment with noise, heat, insufficient illumination, and lack of space inhibits creativity. McCoy & Evans (2002) identify physical features in educational environments with low and high creativity potential, and Ceylan, Dul & Aytac (2008) conduct a similar analysis of managers' offices.…”

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Knowledge workers' creativity and the role of the physical work environment

Dul

Ceylan

Jaspers

2011

Human Resource Management

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The present study examines the effect of the physical work environment on the creativity of knowledge workers, compared with the effects of creative personality and the social-organizational work environment. Based on data from 274 knowledge workers in 27 SMEs, we conclude that creative personality, the social-organizational work environment, and the physical work environment independently affect creative performance. The relative contribution of the physical work environment is smaller than that of the social-organizational work environment, and both contributions are smaller than that of creative personality. The results give support for HR practices that focus on the individual, on the social-organizational work environment, and on the physical work environment in order to enhance knowledge worker creativity.

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Knowledge workers' creativity and the role of the physical work environment

Dul

Ceylan

Jaspers

2011

Human Resource Management

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“…Outside viewing from a window may create a positive mood (Hedge, 1982) and encourage creative task performance (Shibata and Suzuki, 2002). McCoy and Evans (2002) in their study also suggested that visual complexity (presence of many objects and furniture) can motivate creativity and enhance social interaction in a workplace, but, some other studies opposed these findings and suggested that crowded places may decrease privacy and negatively affect social interaction and creativity (Stokols et al, 2002;Sundstrom et al, 1982).…”

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“…For instance, Amabile (1996) explained that physical workspaces which were designed to be motivating can promote the level of creativity; however this effect is not stronger than other aspects of the work environment such as social environment. Previous studies from different perspectives have shown that the perceived quality of the physical work environment influence people creativity (see for example: McCoy and Evans, 2002;Vithayathawornwong et al, 2003;Vischer, 2007;Oksanen and Ståhle, 2013). In fact, previous studies indicated the direct or indirect role of certain features of the physical work environment on creativity via mood (Hedge, 1982;Larsen et al, 1998;Shibata and Suzuki, 2004).…”

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“…Studies in social and environmental psychology have established that the quality of the physical environment have a critical effect on people's attitude and performance (McGuire and McLaren, 2009;Vischer, 2007;De Croon et al, 2005;Lee, 2007). Previous studies in the field of creativity also mentioned the role of the physical work environment in affecting creativity (McCoy and Evans, 2002;Oksanen and Ståhle, 2013;Vischer, 2007;Vithayathawornwong et al, 2003).…”

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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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“…Nakakoji, Yamamoto, and Ohira (1999) also used visual images, but to develop creative computer system design. Meanwhile, a study by McCoy and Evans (2002) used physical environment images that enhanced creativity. A study by Harland and Coren (2001) consistently, found that poor visual acuity and stereopsis may reduce creative task-solving because the effectiveness of imagery in achieving novel solutions is reduced when stored images are lacking in detail.…”

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Impact of Analogical Images on Solving Scientific and Environmental Problems Creatively

Alkiyumi¹

2014

JPR

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This study investigates the impact of analogical images on students' creative abilities of novelty and offeasibility, through solving scientific and environmental problems. There are eight problems: fours cientific and four environmental derived from content-text of science and social studies curricula which were provided to the students.The experiment was implemented over 4 weeks. Analogical images were provided to the experimental groups, whereas control groups were asked to solve the problems abstractly. The experiment was based on the activation of the cerebellumby analogical images to improve creativeabilities. A 2 × 2 factorial design was used. A total of 112 sixth-grade students (45 males & 67 females) from two government schools in Muscat governorate participated in this study. The sample was classified into four classes: two experimental and two control. The findings show that:(a) the experimental group performed better on problem-solving than the control group did; (b) design not gender has the most effect on alinear combination of novelty and feasibility; and (c) gender and design have the most effect on alinear combination of scientific and environmental problems.

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The Potential Role of the Physical Environment in Fostering Creativity

Cited by 240 publications

References 12 publications

Knowledge workers' creativity and the role of the physical work environment

Knowledge workers' creativity and the role of the physical work environment

Individual Control over the Physical Work Environment to Affect Creativity

Impact of Analogical Images on Solving Scientific and Environmental Problems Creatively

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