Creative workplace behavior

Abstract

This study conducted a questionnaire survey (N = 2938) examining the relationship between office behavior and creativity. The analysis showed a positive correlation between creativity and three behavioral characteristics (collaboration, flexibility, and demonstration) in an office environment. However, these correlations vary depending on individuals’ personalities. In particular, those with creative personalities cannot augment their creativity if the office does not possess extraordinarily high levels of the three behavioral characteristics as creativity cannot be enhanced very much in an office with only a medium level of these characteristics. At the same time, those who do not have a creative personality can increase their creativity even when they are in an office with a medium level of the three behavioral characteristics. However, turning an office into a place with a) Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, inamizu@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp A version of this paper was presented at the ABAS Conference 2018 Winter (Inamizu, 2018). © 2018 Nobuyuki Inamizu. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Annals of Business Administrative Science 17 (2018) 69–82 http://doi.org/10.7880/abas.0180309a Received: March 9, 2018; accepted: April 4, 2018 Published in advance on J-STAGE: April 11, 2018