Breaking the chains: The inverted-U-shaped relationship between action-state orientation and creativity under low job autonomy

• Main Authors: BLEDOW, Ronald, KÜHNEL, Jana, JIN, Mengzi, KUHL, Julius
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Creativity; Innovation; Action-State Orientation; Autonomy; Motivation; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6690; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7692/viewcontent/Bledow_Kuehnel_Jin_Kuhl_2021_Creativity_under_low_Autonomy.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

When the social fabric of organizations limits individual autonomy, new ideas are needed that satisfy a person’s will as well as the constraints imposed by the social context. To explain when people achieve this synthesis and display creativity under low job autonomy, we examine the influence of the...