The impact of individual characteristics and leader-member exchange on creative work involvement
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Date
2007-06
Authors
Aziz, Mohd Haris
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Creativity has long been a major focus of organizations around the globe.
Since creativity has a few levels (Woodman et al. 1993); namely individual creativity,
group creativity and organizational creativity, proper focus needs to be put in these
areas to achieve the organizational creativity which will be the eventual result targeted
from the organizations points of view. This study will focus on individual
characteristics of individual creativity portion, as well as Leader-Member Exchange
(LMX) from the group creativity portion focusing on group dynamics. The result will
be Creative Work Involvement within the organizational creativity setting. For the
individual characteristics portion, focus will be put on age, level of position, years of
relevant experience, and gender as the predictors to Creative Work Involvement. As
for the LMX, the multidimensional model was used which comprises of Loyalty,
Affect, Contributions and Professional Respect dimension. This study was being
carried out in a Research and Development department of a multinational company.
The respondents of this study are the entire management staff and engineers who
needs to demonstrate creative work involvement to achieve the organizational goals.
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Leader-Member Exchange (LMX)