Business Administration 3300K Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Motivation, Job Design

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 3300K
• Professor: Alexander Miller

Document Summary

Moo session 6: enhancing creativity through mindless work . Elsbach, hargadon: creativity & the design of professional work. Creativity: the production, conceptualisation, or development of novel and useful ideas, processes or procedures: work environments that enhance intrinsic motivation increase creative output, work environment that hamper intrinsic motivation decrease creative output. Environemtnal stimulants to crreativity: complex & challenging jobs, presence of creativity goals, developmental feedback & evaluation. 1. 2 work contexts that decrease professional creativity: work contexts involving chronically high-workload pressures: harmful to creativity. High-workload contexts: environments both high in job demand and low in job control for employee. Long-term underperformance and lack of creativity due to chronic stresses: overworked employees show signs of attention deficit trait (distractibility, inner frenzy, impatience) 2. 1 including creativity as outcome variable in work design: important consequence of exclusion of creativity in models of work design: exclusion of antecedent of creativity = psychological states.