Abstract

BRAIA, Filipa; CURRAL, Luís  and  GOMES, Catarina. Creativity in the organizational context: the impact of extrinsic rewards and negative feedback in creative performance. Psicologia [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.2, pp.45-62. ISSN 0874-2049.

In the organizational context, creativity has been defined as the production of original, useful and appropriate ideas (Zhou & Su, 2010) and it constitutes to be a necessary step for innovation (Amabile, 1988). However, some questions about the convenient conditions that stimulate creativity are not clearly answered (Mumford et al., 2012), namely the impact of extrinsic rewards (Oldham & Baer, 2012) and the impact of negative feedback (Zhou, 2008). The present study examines the effect of extrinsic rewards and negative feedback. We conducted an experimental study with four conditions (2x2 between) with 80 nurses from a central hospital. This research contributes to gain more insights regarding the right conditions for creativity and innovation to flourish in organizations.

Keywords : Creativity; Extrinsic rewards; Negative feedback; Developmental feedback; Individual brainstorming.

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