Rotterdam School of Management, Department of Management of Technology and Innovation, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Ergonomics. 2011 Jan;54(1):12-20. doi: 10.1080/00140139.2010.542833.
Innovative organisations need creative employees who generate new ideas for product or process innovation. This paper presents a conceptual framework for the effect of personal, social-organisational and physical factors on employee creativity. Based on this framework, an instrument to analyse the extent to which the work environment enhances creativity is developed. This instrument was applied to a sample of 409 employees and support was found for the hypothesis that a creative work environment enhances creative performance. This paper illustrates how the instrument can be used in companies to select and implement improvements. STATEMENT OF RELEVANCE: The ergonomics discipline addresses the work environment mainly for improving health and safety and sometimes productivity and quality. This paper opens a new area for ergonomics: designing work environments for enhancing employee creativity in order to strengthen an organisation's capability for product and process innovation and, consequently, its competitiveness.
创新型组织需要有创造力的员工，他们能够为产品或流程创新提出新的想法。本文提出了一个概念框架，用于分析个人、社会组织和物理因素对员工创造力的影响。基于这个框架，开发了一种分析工作环境对创造力促进程度的工具。该工具应用于 409 名员工的样本，支持了这样一个假设，即创造性的工作环境可以提高创造性绩效。本文说明了如何在公司中使用该工具来选择和实施改进。
人体工程学学科主要解决工作环境问题，以提高健康和安全水平，有时还可以提高生产力和质量。本文为人体工程学开辟了一个新的领域：设计工作环境以提高员工的创造力，从而增强组织在产品和流程创新方面的能力，进而提高其竞争力。
