Construction and validation of an instrument climate for creativity in business organizations / ConstruÃÃo e validaÃÃo de um instrumento de clima para criatividade nas organizaÃÃes empresariais

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2005

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This study mainly aimed at constructing and validating a Scale of Climate for Creativity in Business Organizations (QCC) as well as at investigating the precision of the scale and comparing the perception of creative climate in men and women. The scale was initially built up by the contact with six judges who defined the indicators, i. e., 140 items and 14 variables. Those indicators were presented to another four judges verified how adequate items for the factors. At this second analyses 46 items and one variable were crossed out, keeping on, therefore, 94 items and 13 variables as following Challenge and Motivation, Process of Communication, Tolerance to Differences, Wages and Benefits, Support to Innovation, Risk Taking, Confidence and Opening, Absence of Conflicts, Ludism and Humor, Time for Ideas, Discussions and Debates, Liberty to Create, and Happiness and Dynamism. Then this version was applied to a sample of 940 High School Graduates to Postgraduates - 500 men and 440 women - from 18 to 64 years old. All of them were working for the Administrative, Financial and Production Departments of private companies in the countryside of the state of SÃo Paulo. At the end, there were 60 items and 7 factors in the final scale named as Dynamism and Motivation, Humor and Cooperation, Liberty to Create, Absence of Conflicts, Support to Innovation, Risk Taking, Tolerance and Communication. The scale showed up psychometrically valid and precise in the 60 items. By means of the analysis of the indexes of inner consistency, five factors may be considered as strong, two as promising and one as weak. In relation to the perception of the climate for the creativity among men and women, it was certified that mainly men present a higher significance in the factors such as Liberty to create as well as Opening and risk taking. Finally men also provide little significance to the factors as Support to innovation and Dynamism and motivation. The results point to the different aspects of the working environment which has influence on developing creativity and suggest various directions to future researches.

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avaliaÃÃo clima organizacional psicologia evaluation creativity empresas criatividade organizational climate companies

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