The assessment conception of employees’ individual creativity spillover effect
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Koncepcja oceny efektu spillover indywidualnej kreatywności pracowników przedsiębiorstw o zróżnicowanym stopniu know-how
The assessment conception of employees’ individual creativity spillover effect in enterprises with different levels of know-how

Author(s): Kamil Augustyn
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
Keywords: economic development; creativity; creativity spillover effect

Summary/Abstract: Creative human capital is an important determinant of economic development nowadays. Thecreativity phenomenon is the subject of investigations of many scientific disciplines, such as psychology,pedagogics, sociology, economics of creativity, management sciences, philosophy, neurobiology,history and even ethics. In terms of creativity economics a particularly interesting issuesare creativity spillovers or creative spillovers – the effects of employees’ creativity spread which canpositively influence the development processes of economic structures and contribute to the growth of enterprises functioning efficiency. Based on in-depth study of literature an interesting scientificquestion can be asked – is it possible to scientifically observe and measure employees’ individualcreativity spillover effect in enterprises?The paper takes the form of a scientific statement, as well as a technical note. Its aim is a shortdescription of the research plan, which the author intends to realize in order to answer the abovequestion. Article discusses the main and detailed scientific hypothesis, research objectives, selectedmethods as well as the research methodology. It also presents the procedure of building an originalresearch tool named The Individual Creativity Spillover Effect Questionnaire (ICSEQ). The currentworking version of ICSEQ contains 20 statements. The 5-point scale with a neutral midpoint is usedto assess spillovers. Respondents are asked to mark their opinions on each statement. Additionally,ICSEQ contains two extra questions (one open and one closed).

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 52
  • Page Range: 362-371
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish