When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity

Shin, Jihae; Grant, Adam M.

doi:10.5465/amj.2018.1471

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“…For example, too little curiosity or love of learning in a student might harm performance and too much might also be detrimental by sending the student down tangential paths of interest that are off-task from learning the course-specific content. Shin and Grant (2020) found an inverted “U” shaped curve relationship between procrastination and creativity.…”

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The Character Strengths Response: An Urgent Call to Action

Mayerson

2020

Front. Psychol.

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A model on the role of character strengths in individual, collective, and species success is proffered. It is derived from viewing character strengths from a species perspective as opposed to one of individual differences/personality psychology. The history of the VIA initiative on character science is overviewed, and results to date are summarized in terms of promoting well-being, helping to accomplish aspirational intentions, and allowing the greater good of the collective to grow. "The character strengths response" is described as the response capacities that character strengths may enable for helping us fulfill the human promise of surviving, thriving, and successfully creating a next-generation so that individuals and the collective flourish while also living in harmonious balance with other species. An argument is presented that there is an urgent need for advancing population-wide psychological maturity to be better prepared to navigate the difficult decisions that accompany growing technological powers, and that the character strengths response warrants special attention of research funding to accomplish this imperative.

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The Character Strengths Response: An Urgent Call to Action

Mayerson

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Our study contributes to the literature drawing on SDT to demonstrate the need to look at employees' level of intrinsic motivation in relation to work outcomes (e.g., Dysvik & Kuvaas, 2011;Shin & Grant, 2020). Whereas other research has looked at intrinsic motivation as a moderator or boundary condition of another focal relationship, our study focuses on intrinsic motivation itself, and the influence different levels of intrinsic motivation has on the work outcomes it is argued to be important for.…”

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When midway won't do: the curvilinear relationship between intrinsic motivation and willingness to be flexible

Solberg

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Dysvik

2021

JMP

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PurposeIntrinsic motivation is held as critical for employees' willingness to be flexible (WTBF). Yet empirical research suggests that employees who find work intrinsically satisfying could resist work changes. In this study, the authors examine if a curvilinear relationship exists between these variables.Design/methodology/approachThe authors predict that the relationship between intrinsic motivation and employees' WTBF will become more positive as intrinsic motivation advances beyond moderate levels. They examine the role developmental supervisor support plays in generating the critical threshold of intrinsic motivation needed for it to be positively related with WTBF. They test their hypotheses with survey data collected in three substantially different employee samples.FindingsData support the hypothesized curvilinear relationship between intrinsic motivation and WTBF. Developmental supervisor support is found to influence employee flexibility indirectly through its linear effect on intrinsic motivation and, in turn, the quadratic effect of intrinsic motivation on WTBF.Practical implicationsThe study provides insight into how and when intrinsic motivation increases employees' WTBF and into the degree of developmental support needed to facilitate a positive relationship between these variables.Originality/valueThis is the first study to the author’s knowledge that empirically examines the relationship between intrinsic motivation and employees' WTBF.

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“…Many human performances may neither benefit from nor deserve rapid evaluation. Cycling too fast could truncate exploration, generate outcomes too quickly, leading to premature judgment and less creativity (Jarvenpaa & Valikangas, 2020;Shin & Grant, 2020). In fact, this prompts efforts deliberately to slow or stagger the evaluation of performance in some contexts.…”

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Evaluation of Performance

Bryant

2021

Augmented Humanity

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Agents evaluate their performances to assess progress, learn, and improve. In doing so, they refer to criteria of various kinds. Some criteria are deeply encoded in mental models, organizational procedures, or cultural norms and logics, while other evaluative criteria are adaptive and may upregulate or downregulate, depending on the agent’s goals, expectations, and context. Here, too, digitalization is transformative. Artificial agents bring unprecedented power to the evaluation of performance, including the rapid intra-cyclical evaluation of ongoing processes. These mechanisms support feedforward guidance in real time. Therefore, when human and artificial agents combine in the evaluation of augmented performance, they face additional risks. Artificial evaluative processing could be fast and precise, while at the same time, human evaluation may be relatively sluggish and imprecise. Overall evaluations of performance could be distorted and dysfunctional.

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When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity

Cited by 62 publications

References 116 publications

The Character Strengths Response: An Urgent Call to Action

The Character Strengths Response: An Urgent Call to Action

When midway won't do: the curvilinear relationship between intrinsic motivation and willingness to be flexible

Evaluation of Performance

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