Organizational behaviour

1. Creativity and Creative
Abilities

4. Qualities of Creative People
• Different and they do not mind being different
• Playful and do not take anything too seriously
• Do not play by rules, find new ways to do old things
• Adventurous
• Troubled being accurate, punctual,
• Have sense of humor
• Spontaneous
• Independent
• Sensitive
• Bold
• See things which others do not
• Passionate

5. Creative Personality
The model of creative personality is a simple
equation:
"Core traits related to creativity + motivation
to create, grow and contribute - fears and
disabilities that impede creativity = enduring
potential for lifelong creativity."

6. Creative Personality
A note of caution: "To be able to lead a creative life, it is
also necessary to have a relatively weak need for
security and status.
" Why? “
After all, to be creative means to take risks, go off the
beaten track, act in the face of criticism from others,
reduce commitments of a social nature, and so forth."

7. Creative Matrix
Challenger Innovator
Practicalizer
Modifier/ Replicator Synthesizer
Planner
Reproducer Dreamer
Creativity
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8. Common Blocks
Block Causes Symptoms
(Tendency to)
Usefulness
(Mild form)
Harmfulness to
creativity (Severe
form)
Fear of
failure
Excessive
punishment;
excessive concern
with loss of face or
honour
Stick to safe
options
Galvanizes for
better
Promote risk
aversive; restricts
divergent thinking
Allergy to
ambiguity
Excessive spoon
feeding/
specialization
Avoid unclear
/ complex
tasks
Take clear and
effective
action
Keep away from
discovery/ creation
Touchiness
(fear of
humiliation)
Lack of self
confidence/
previous
experience
Stick to the old
groups/ ideas
A sense of
loneliness may
direct energy
to wards
creativity
Aversive to
collaborate/
seeking feedback

9. Common Blocks
Block Causes Symptoms tendency
to)
Usefulness (Mild
form)
Harmfulness to
creativity
(Severe form)
Conformity Severe punishment of
deviance
Herd mentality;
excessive attachment
to traditions
Helps in getting
acceptance/
subsequent CA role
Resistance
Resource
myopia
Lack of experience of
dealing problems/
excessive dependence
Passive, helplessness,
lack of participation
None Inhibits
Starved
sensibilities
Over
specialization
Dullness, inability to
feel/ imagine richly
Release energy Reduced supply
of stimuli
Rigidity Ignorance, deep seated
anxiety
Stereotypes/ get
fixated
Survival value Impediment to
growth,
experimentation
and innovation

10. Creativity Abilities
Ability Description What to do
Fluency Ability to come up with a number
of solutions to a given problem
Practice listing while making
even the ordinary decisions of
life
Flexibility Ability to come up with a large
varieties of solutions to a given
problem
Try deliberately to look for
different facets of even ordinary
situations
Originality Ability to come up with unusual
but appropriate responses
Strengthen fluency, practice
associative thinking, alternative
meanings, defer jumping to
obvious solutions
Elaboration Ability to elaborate on a theme has
also been recognized as a
significant creative ability
Logical linkages, take
commonplace ideas, build
network of associated ideas and
experiences

11. Creativity Abilities
Ability Description What to do
Sensibility Ability to notice the unexplained,
the unsatisfactory, or the
incongruent
Like a child….what would you
like to know about ordinary or
familiar situations, cultivate
curiosity
Guessing
ability
Ability to go to the roots of a
phenomenon by unraveling its
causes, and equally, to visualize its
consequences
Try to restate, as a scientist
would, the facts of a situation in
a more abstract manner. Then
work backwards to causes.
Identify key forces, project their
outcomes
Redefining
ability
Ability to restate problems and
situations in fresh ways
Examine the problem as people
trained very differently would
do; encourage debate, gather
fresh data

12. Strategies for Unblocking
• Awareness
• Analysis and diagnosis
• Help from a credible source
• Inoculation
• Reward
• Goal setting