Çalışanların Yaratıcı Kişilik Özelliklerinin Örgütsel Yaratıcılığa Etkisi

Abstract

Yaratıcı düşünme yeteneği, insanların doğuştan kazanmış oldukları ve kişiden kişiye farklılık gösteren bir özellik olarak kabul edilmektedir. Yaratıcılık konusu, günümüzde türlü sebeplerden ötürü pek çok disiplin sahasının gittikçe artan bir ivmeyle ilgisini çekmektedir. Rekabetin yoğun olarak yaşandığı çalışma hayatında, yeni düşünceler ya da benzeri olmayan ürünler ya da düzenlemeler meydana getirebilen kurumlar başarıyı yakalayacaktır. Yaratıcılık, yenilik ile yakından ilişkilidir ve yüksek düzeydeki yaratıcılık beraberinde daha çok yenilik getirmektedir. Yenilik ile yaratıcılığı teşvikte bulunan kurum kültürünün iyileştirilmesi, rekabet avantajı elde etmeyi arzulayan kurumlar açısından bir zorunlu olarak görülmektedir. Kurum temelli yaratıcılıkta başarı sağlanmasına yardımcı olacak kritik unsur, örgüt içindeki yaratıcılığın iyi bir şekilde yönetiliyor olmasıdır. Örgütsel yaratıcılık yönetimi, çalışan kişilerin mevcut beceri ve yetkinliklerinin bilincinde olabilmelerini, ekip çalışması gerçekleştirebilmelerini, belirli bir vizyona sahip olabilmelerini; kurumların ise birer öğrenen örgüt özelliği taşıyabilmelerini daha kolay bir hale getirmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, İstanbul’daki araştırma üniversitelerinde görev yapmakta olan 600 akademisyene ilişkin yaratıcı kişilik özelliklerinin örgüt bazındaki yaratıcılığa olan etkisini tespit edebilmektir. Korelasyon analizi sonucunda, örgütsel yaratıcılık ile yaratıcı kişilik özelliklerinin %68.3 oranında pozitif yönlü bir ilişkiye sahip oldukları gözlenmiştir. Ayrıca regresyon analizi sonucunda, yaratıcı kişilik özelliklerinin artmasıyla örgütsel yaratıcılığın 0.655 birim artacağı belirlenmiştir. Böylelikle, örgütsel yaratıcılık hususundaki en kritik faktör, yaratıcı kişilik özelliklerine sahip bulunan işgörenlerin istihdamının doğru bir tercih olacağı belirtilmiştir.

Keywords

• Örgütsel Yaratıcılık
• Yaratıcı Kişilik
• İstatistiksel Analiz

The Effect of Employees' Creative Personality Traits on Organizational Creativity

Abstract

The ability to think creatively is considered to be a characteristic that people are born with and that differs from person to person. The subject of creativity attracts the attention of many disciplines with an increasing momentum due to various reasons. In the working life where competition is intense, institutions that can create new ideas or unique products or regulations will achieve success. Creativity is closely related to innovation, and a high level of creativity brings with it more innovation. Improving the corporate culture, which encourages innovation and creativity, is seen as a necessity for institutions that want to gain competitive advantage. The critical element that will help achieve success in corporate-based creativity is that creativity within the organization is well managed. Organizational creativity management enables working people to be aware of their current skills and competencies, to perform teamwork, and to have a specific vision; on the other hand, it makes it easier for institutions to have the characteristics of learning organizations. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of creative personality traits of 600 academicians working at research universities in Istanbul on organizational creativity. As a result of the correlation analysis, it was observed that organizational creativity and creative personality traits had a positive relationship at the rate of 68.3%. In addition, as a result of the regression analysis, it was determined that organizational creativity would increase by 0.655 units with the increase of creative personality traits. Thus, it was stated that the most critical factor in organizational creativity, the employment of employees with creative personality traits would be the right choice.

Keywords

• Organizational creativity
• creative personality
• statistical analysis

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