Were you surprised by the inclusion of any of Ekvall's ten
dimensions? Are there any additional dimensions that you think
should have been included?
While looking over the Ekvall ten dimensions I was kind of surprise
by the adding of Playfulness and Humor. Working as an assistance
Park Manger for a state agency, I can see how this can be part of the
work place this structure. I would like to see down time
incorporated, this would include like vacation time, cross training to
other areas in the department. I feel like just learning something new
would help keep the brain strength and keeping the individual
motivated, able to refresh the min and help with aiding new ideas
from a different perspective.
Which dimension of creative climate was the hardest to evaluate?
I did not have any problems with evaluating any part of the
dimension. When working for an organization that values employee
feed back and to all measures to resolve employee concerns and
problems. I am also on the employee survey committee, where we
put out quarterly surveys to get feed back from employees and then
we evaluate them and come up with different solution to present to
upper management.
Share any insights or thoughts about the creative climate for the
organization you evaluated. Discuss the one to two dimensions
that received the highest and lowest scores.
One of the highest scores that I really look at was Challenge and Ideal
Support which both scored at a 3. The leaders of our organization
spend lots of time doing a great job with communicating with all
employees’ year after year. They make it a priority to include all annual
employee objective to each employee. My next one was Ideal Support
its important to stay competitive in the industry, so we encourage all
our employees to think outside the box when task with new task. These
types of things would help with being competitive within in the market.
We also set aside rewards and recognition set in place for innovative
employees.
My low ones were freedom at 2, all staff have and opportunity to share
their information and exercise discretion, but at limited cost. This can
some how put a negative effect to employee where they don’t feel their
idea are being heard which can lead to problem and decrease in moral.
