The aim of this study is to examine the role of organizational climate in employees’ creative performance using the public sector as an empirical context. The employees’ creative performance is divided into two entities and studied as two separate effect variables: individual creativity and individual innovative behavior.,A conceptual model is developed and tested in a survey in which employees of a public sector organization participated.,The findings indicate that organizational climate has an important role in employees’ creative performance. The organizational climate showed a positive and significant link to the two creative performance variables included in this study. Moreover, the study revealed that individual creativity mediates the relationship between organizational climate and individual innovative behavior.,This paper is limited to examining the role of organizational climate on two creative performance variables related to individual employees in the public sector. To trigger individual creativity and individual innovative behavior in the public sector, there is a need for managers to build, develop and maintain an organizational climate that supports both employees’ creativity and enthusiasm in implementing those novel and useful ideas.,To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is among the first in the public sector to demonstrate the importance of organizational climate for employees’ individual creative performance. The findings of this study adds to our current knowledge and understanding of the value of organizational climate, and its influence on individual creative performance in the public sector.

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公共部门的组织氛围和创造力

这项研究的目的是使用公共部门作为经验背景，研究组织氛围在员工创造力中的作用。员工的创造力表现被划分为两个实体，并作为两个单独的影响变量进行研究：个体创造力和个体创新行为。在公共部门组织员工参与的调查中，开发并测试了概念模型。组织氛围对员工的创造力具有重要作用。组织氛围显示了与这项研究中包括的两个创造性绩效变量的积极显着联系。此外，研究发现，个人创造力可以调解组织氛围与个人创新行为之间的关系。本文仅限于研究组织气氛在与公共部门中的个人雇员相关的两个创造性绩效变量上的作用。为了触发公共部门的个人创造力和个人创新行为，管理者需要建立，发展和维持一种组织氛围，以支持员工的创造力和实施这些新颖有用的想法的热情。作者的知识，这项研究是公共部门中首批证明组织氛围对员工个人创造力重要性的研究之一。这项研究的发现增加了我们对组织氛围的价值及其对公共部门个人创意表现的影响的当前知识和理解。