Values and Creativity

Kasof, Joseph; Chen, Chuansheng; Himsel, Amy; Greenberger, Ellen

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“…Dollinger et al, 2007). Extrinsic motivation has often been negatively associated with creativity (Kasof, Chen, Himsel, & Greenberger, 2007). However, Deci and Ryan (1991) present different types of extrinsic motivation.…”

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“…In particular, they refer to identified motivation, a particular type of extrinsic motivation that is self-determined, and which results from goals that the individual deems important. Thinking in particular of this type of extrinsic motivation, Kasof et al (2007) state that 'almost inevitably, at least some stretch of the journey leading to creativity is so unappealing or aversive that extrinsic motivation is necessary to energize forward movement ' (p. 112). Materialism is a form of identified motivation.…”

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Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: linear and curvilinear effects

Coelho

Lages

Sousa

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. *Corresponding author AcknowledgmentWe are grateful to Marlene Noronha for her assistance with data collection and the comments of participants of the 2014 AMS World Marketing Congress. Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: Linear and curvilinear effectsPrevious studies have investigated the relationship between the Five Factor model of personality and creativity. As this model has been criticised for providing a limited account of an individual's personality, this study considers additional personality traits that have recently been investigated in the literature as determinants of employee behaviour. Moreover, we also contribute to the existing body of literature by conducting this study in a services setting, for which we predict personality traits will exert differentiated effects on creativity when compared to other settings. Finally, while past research has focused on linear effects, this study examines the existence of nonlinear effects between personality and creativity. The results indicate that personality traits apart from the Five Factor model have an impact on creativity and that the effects of several personality traits on the creativity of frontline service employees differ from those obtained in other settings. Lastly, the findings also show that five of the personality traits have non-linear effects on creativity, and this may be a stimulus for a new stream of research in the human resources literature.Keywords: creativity; personality; service employees; linear and curvilinear effects Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: Linear and curvilinear effects IntroductionCreativity refers to the development of ideas about goods, services, processes, and practices, which are novel and likely to be useful to an organisation (Shalley, Zhou, & Oldham, 2004).Whereas creativity reflects the development of these ideas at the individual level, innovation concerns the organisational implementation of such ideas (Amabile, 1996). Due to the belief that creativity is paramount not only to greater customer experiences and customer satisfaction (e.g. Coelho, Augusto, & Lages, 2011;Daly, Grove, Dorsch, & Fisk, 2009), but also organisational innovation and ultimately performance (Amabile, Barsade, Mueller, & Straw, 2005;Chen, Shih, & Yeh, 2011;Jiang, Wang, & Zhao, 2012;Liu, 2013), employee creativity has been attracting growing research attention (e.g. Probst, Stewart, Gruys, & Tierney, 2007). Creativity ...

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Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: linear and curvilinear effects

Coelho

Lages

Sousa

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…An overarching theme of Halloween is creative expression, which itself inspires originality, imagination, and risk taking [78]. Creative behaviors are influenced by external factors such as cultural values [79], gender role schemas [1 -6], and restricted choice in commercially produced products [10]. In their book Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, Lamb and Brown [80] argue that girls are particularly disadvantaged in the commercial marketplace compared to boys.…”

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Female Disempowerment Disguised as a Halloween Costume

Sullivan¹,

Hipple²,

Hyers³

2017

TOFAMSJ

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Objective:We explore the relationship between gender stereotypes and North American Halloween costumes. Method (Study 1):Extending Nelson's analysis of gender-markers in mass-produced children's Halloween costumes, Study 1 explored gender-typing in children's costumes (n = 428), also adding a sample of adult's costumes (n = 428) from major retailers, coding for character archetypes (heroes, villains, and fools), active-masculinity/passive-femininity, and for degree of disguise. Results (Study 1):Compared to boys'/men's costumes, girls'/women's costumes represented more ornamental feminine-passivity. Method (Study 2):Ornamental feminine-passivity was explored in an additional sample of baby girls' (n = 161), child girls' (n = 189), teen girls' (n = 167), and women's (n = 301) costumes, coded for character archetypes and markers of infantilization and sexualization. Results (Study 2):In addition to age differences in character archetypes, women's costumes were most likely to be sexualized (especially heroes), girls' and teenage young women's costumes were most likely to combine both infantilization and sexualization, and baby girls' costumes were least likely to incorporate either gender-markers. Conclusion:Costumes reinforce gender stereotypes differentiating boys/men and girls/women and the ways in which girls/women are stereotyped varies across the lifespan. Patterns are discussed with regard to how gender stereotypes embedded in holiday traditions reinforce messages of disempowerment for women and girls.

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“…This demonstrated an unusual perspective on the shapes, and such drawings were evaluated as creative by the judges. This study showed that subjects who held an identified motivation toward the value of creativity were judged to be more creative in the subsequent task (Kasof et al 2007). It is striking that our creative behaviour is observed by agents with autonomous orientation of motivation, because, as we have addressed earlier, creativity is one of the intellectual virtues Alfano has shown to be explained and predicted by situational factors (Alfano 2012, p. 235).…”

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Situationism, virtue epistemology, and self-determination theory

Iizuka

2018

Synthese

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Situationists (e.g., Doris in Lack of character: personality and moral behavior, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002; Harman in Proc Aristot Soc 99:315-331, 1999. https://doi.org/10.2307/4545312), with reference to empirical work in psychology, have called into question the predictive and explanatory power of character traits and on this basis have criticized the empirical adequacy of moral virtue. More recently, Alfano (Philos Q 62(247):223-249, 2012; Character as moral fiction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013) has extended the situationist critique from virtue ethics to virtue epistemology. On the line he advances, virtue responsibilism-the view that intellectual character traits play an important part in traditional and untraditional epistemological inquiries-is criticized as empirically inadequate in light of the extent to which individuals are shown to be susceptible to seemingly trivial and epistemically irrelevant situational influences. Alfano's attempted redeployment of the situationist challenge to virtue responsibilism is on closer inspection not as straightforward as he claims. It is granted that the empirical adequacy of virtue responsibilism will be eventually threatened if it can be shown that virtuous motivation is, in light of situational factors, causally ineffective. As it turns out, various psychological studies which situationists have overlooked, suggest that virtuous motivation is causally efficacious in a way that favours the position of the virtue responsibilist over the situationist. In the first part of this paper, I outline the hard core of virtue theory: both a rich motivation requirement, and a commitment to the inherent relation between virtue and a good life; then I assess whether these are undermined by situationist criticism. I address the confusion of the existing debate, and the conclusion drawn is that virtue theory ultimately remains unscathed. In the second part of my 123Synthese paper I defend the empirical adequacy of virtue theory based on self-determination theory. When we afford closer attention to studies on the orientation of our motivation, it becomes clear how the dynamics of our motivation have a tremendous influence on desirable behavioural outcomes: a good life.

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Values and Creativity

Cited by 116 publications

References 66 publications

Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: linear and curvilinear effects

Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: linear and curvilinear effects

Female Disempowerment Disguised as a Halloween Costume

Situationism, virtue epistemology, and self-determination theory

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