Creative Climate: A Leadership Lever for Innovation

✍ Scribed by SCOTT G. ISAKSEN II; HANS J. AKKERMANS

• Publisher: Creative Education Foundation
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 175 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0175
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2162-6057.2011.tb01425.x

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The working atmosphere within an organization has an important influence on its level of innovative productivity. Organizational leaders influence innovative productivity as well as the climate for creativity and innovation. This exploratory study included 140 respondents from 103 different organizations, 31 industries, and 10 countries, all of whom completed an online survey focused on examining the intervening nature of the climate for creativity and innovation. First, those who perceived more leadership support for innovation had significantly better creative climate scores. Second, those who perceived higher levels of innovative productivity also had better climate scores. Finally, organizational climate as an intervening variable between leadership behavior and innovation was confirmed through partial correlation and mediation analysis. The findings of this study support the pivotal role that creative climate plays between leadership behavior and innovative productivity.