Haw-Jeng Chiou
Department of Psychology Fu-Jen Catholic University
An open, human-based, and creative learning environment is critical for incubating creativity. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influences of the school organizational environment on the high school teacher’s creative performances. A field study is designed to investigate the creative organizational climate and related influential factors at Taiwan’s high school campus, by using interview and open-ended questionnaire. Interviewees were 18 teachers, principles, and administer, who were purposively selected from different types of high schools. The open-ended questionnaire was administrated to 82 high school teachers and administers for collecting their opinions about the influential factors on campus’s creative climate. Results indicated that the educational reform in Taiwan and organizational structure have significant influences on campus’s creative climate; the organizational structure, administration policies, leaders’ efficiency, team work, job redesign, and communication system may influence employee’s creative performance at campus. An integrative model of organizational creativity at campus based on the finding of this current study was proposed at the end. Discussion also involved the issue of that the Republic of Creativity, a movement pushed by Ministry of Education in Taiwan, may be a kind of “the new cloth of the king”.
Keywords: creativity performance, organizational climate for creativity at campus, the social psychology of creativity