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The Affect of Personal Playfulness and Team Playfulness Climate on Team Creativity Performance

Under the knowledge-based economics, the roles of labors are considered important once again. The human creativity has become the main source of core competence. However, as the development of enterprises brings on a new economic type, the man-hours and work loading also increases with the development of enterprises. When people are overworked, there comes pressure, fatigue and illness. Therefore, more and more people are talking about the playfulness of jobs, which refers to the spontaneity, imagination, emotional expression, and the attitude of having fun and being involved and interested in the work, all these will change with the variation of the external environment.
Meanwhile, teams also play an important role in the organization. For the action unit to solve the problems of the organization and promote innovation, teams are constituted by members with various knowledge, skill and background. Hence, the team playfulness climate is also crucial to the creativity and performance of the organization. The team playfulness climate represents the share climate of autonomy and pleasure, which is built by those team members who work together day by day, such climate can get these people to feel interested and feel supported about their jobs, and so they won¡¦t be afraid to try new challenges.
This study is taken from a personal viewpoint to test the model of the relationship between personal playfulness, team playfulness climate and team creativity performance. The evidence of this research is based on the questionnaires given out to the students who took the course ¡§The Discovery and Application of Creativity¡¨ which was held by the Consulting Division in Ministry of Education. Below are the discoveries of this thesis:
1. Personal playfulness positively influences team playfulness climate.
2. Team playfulness climate positively influences team creativity performance.
3. Personal playfulness has significant difference on age, the number of brothers and sisters one has, academic background, and club experience.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0725104-183326
Date25 July 2004
CreatorsHung, Yu-tzu
ContributorsI-heng Chen, Chin-kang Jen, Jen-jsung Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0725104-183326
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