Being Creative is an Environmental Impact: A Direct Analysis of Kanter Structural Tools and Employee Creativity

Authors

  • A. Jency Priyadharshany
  • K. Ramprabha
  • D. Jayachithra

Abstract

The present study deals with the environment in which the employee find himself to be creative, providing all the resources that helps him to promote or develop new ideas and giving the innovative outputs. The study concentrated on the factors developed by Kanter in 1988 which is involved in empowering the employees through the structure of the environment and those factors are opportunity, information, resources, support, formal and informal power. The employee creativity is embedded within the environment factors it becomes output when the employee utilized in their job rotation. It is proved with the faculties working in private universities under sample of 326. It is revealed that the employees are very creative when they are structurally empowered. Hence the employee who could able to utilize the structural factors they are capable of being creative.

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2020-04-05

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