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Figure 5. Distribution of expectations between executives and employees.
The study was based on the assumption that the development of creativity is strongly
influenced by the employee’s approach to personal qualities and confidence in their creative
powers. The questionnaire included nine qualities of a creative personality: curiosity and thirst
for knowledge, flow of ideas, openness to new experiences, ability to orient yourself in new
situations, originality, confidence in your own creative powers, endurance, rich imagination,
and courage to take risks and take on new activities. The respondents were asked to evaluate
these qualities in a 10-point scale, where 0 means that this quality is not important and 10
means that this quality is very important. Meanings were given only to the extreme values,
while intermediate values were described by points. A more detailed data analysis confirms
that many of the respondents had a rather high opinion of such qualities as openness to new
experiences and need for innovation, curiosity and thirst for knowledge, confidence in their
own creative powers (Table 6). A fifth of the respondents gave average or lower than average
points to imagination, endurance, ability to orient yourself in new situations.
Table 6. Assessment of creativity qualities.
Qualities
Points
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Curiosity, thirst for knowledge 14% 6% 22% 12% 13% 8% 7% 7% 6% 5%
Flow of ideas 9% 6% 6% 19% 20% 21% 7% 6% 4% 2%
Openness to new experiences 17% 21% 21% 15% 3% 5% 4% 4% 6% 4%
Ability to orient yourself in 0% 7% 11% 13% 15% 13% 17% 16% 8% 0%
new situations
Originality 2% 5% 13% 26% 24% 11% 9% 3% 4% 2%
Confidence in your own 5% 6% 13% 22% 15% 19% 14% 4% 2% 0%
creative powers
Endurance 4% 7% 7% 9% 20% 18% 13% 13% 5% 4%
Rich imagination 6% 5% 13% 17% 20% 22% 11% 7% 0% 0%
Courage to take risks and take
on new activities
4% 5% 13% 20% 19% 22% 4% 8% 5% 0%
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