How Does the Hierarchical Management System Influence the Climate of Creativity in Chinese University Laboratories?

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Author(s): Chunfang Zhou (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 13
Source title: Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage During Economic Crisis
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patricia Ordoñez de Pablos (University of Oviedo, Spain), Lluis Jovell Turró (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain), Robert D. Tennyson (University of Minnesota, USA)and Jingyuan Zhao (University of Toronto, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6457-9.ch005

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Knowledge Discovery / Library & Information Science / Management Science

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This chapter aims to investigate how the Chinese hierarchical management system influences the climate of creativity in university laboratories. A questionnaire (Creative Climate Questionnaire, CCQ) survey was carried out with 25 laboratories (126 participants) at 7 universities in Northeastern China. The comparative study reveals both the advantages and disadvantages of the hierarchical management system for creativity in university laboratories. To some extent, the hierarchical system stimulates different levels of laboratories to shape different collective objectives and goals, and it increases the synergy of the creative abilities of group members in laboratories. However, the uniform model of “hard resource distribution” regulated by the hierarchical system cannot meet the diverse needs for the development of creativity in university laboratories.

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