Ekvall’s Dimensions of a Creative Climate Assessment

Ekvall’s Dimensions of a Creative Climate Assessment

My Reaction to the Inclusion of Any We’llvall’s Ten Dimensions and Recommendations

I was surprised by the Inclusion of idea support. In organizations with a tall matrixed structure, ideas are rarely supported because they are only approved if the top management likes them. The system also limits Ekvall’s ideas because project members play against their superiors and restrict the distribution of the resources required for Ekvall’s ideas (Kortmann, 2012; Puranam & Maciejovsky, 2017). However, the analysis covers all the critical dimensions; sEkvall’sot sees the need to add any other sizes.

The Dimension of Creative Climate that Was the Hardest to Evaluate

The risk-taking dimension was the hardest to evaluate because the organization does not clearly state whether top management embraces risk. Therefore, I had to assess employees’ behavior while implementing the new iEkvall and how seriously new pictures are taken. My conclusion was that the company has some risk-taking propensity because they embrace new ideas regardless of their impact on the organization and handle many ideas simultaneously to increase the chances of success.

Insights or Thoughts About the Creative Climate for the Organization After Evaluation.

Based on the organizational behavior analysis of Ekvall’s ten dimensions, I can conclude that the organization’s culture does not promote a creative climate. One of the reasons behind this conclusion is that employees are denied the autonomy to make decisions and are tied to the decisions made by top management. There is also limited collaboration between employees because every function strives for unique objectives. The second reason is the lack of employee involvement in the organization’s daily operations and long-term goals, thus limiting them from generating ideas to improve things and introducing products that may boost organizational performance.

Dimensions that Received the Highest and Lowest Scores.

The challenge dimension is one of the dimensions that received the lowest score due to the organization’s tendency to sideline employees from decision-making. The idea support dimension received the highest score because the organization allows employees to work on new ideas as long as they focus on enterprise-wide initiatives.

Ekvall’s Dimensions of a Creative Climate Assessment Worksheet

Summary

The ratings above suggest that the internal conditions in the company do not promote creative behavior and performance. For instance, the organization does not have a highly challenging environment to motivate employees to contribute and find meaningfulness and joy in their work because they are not involved in its long-term goals and daily operations. Employees are expected to accept the decisions made by top management and cannot make their own decisions or push back. New things rarely occur because top management controls everything, thus lacking the organization’s life eventfulness. The work environment is also strictly professional, with no room for playfulness and humor. Employees’ freedom is also limited because they have to follow the directives given by top management, including working on multiple projects simultaneously.

The company has some tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty because it allows employees to work on multiple projects simultaneously to launch different products. Employees also spend time elaborating on new ideas because functional teams meet regularly with their product team to advance their projects. Besides, the company embraces new ideas and provides the resources needed to implement them. For instance, it pulls teams from different functional departments and specialists from operational areas to work on various projects simultaneously. However, interactions have limited emotional safety because the vice president monitors the interactions and holds all the actual management authority over team collaborations.

Furthermore, the company has limited exchanges, encounters, or conflicts among ideas, viewpoints, and contradictory knowledge and experiences because employees must focus on enterprise-wide initiatives and follow top management’s directives without pushing back. The company may have many interpersonal, personal, or emotional conflicts because employees have to follow a chain of command to express their grievances, which may take a long time before addressing them.

References

Kortmann, S. (2012). Organizational structure. The Relationship between Organizational Structure and Organizational Ambidexterity, 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-3630-1_2

Puranam, P., & Maciejovsky, B. (2017). Organizational structure and organizational learning. The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning, 520-534. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190263362.013.35

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In Module Seven, you will investigate metrics for determining success in an innovative organization and critical factors that can help identify organizations that will be successful at innovating. You will apply and discuss Göran Ekvall’s method for measuring the creative climate at an organization by examining ten climate dimensions he identified.

Ekvall’s Dimensions of a Creative Climate Assessment

Complete the Dimensions of Creative Climate worksheet, which assesses Ekvall’s ten dimensions of a creative climate for your current organization; alternatively, you can measure another organization by interviewing one of its employees. You should review the creative climate document in the resources for this module before completing the worksheet.

Address the following:

• 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?
• Which dimension of creative climate was the hardest to evaluate?
• 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.

In addition, upload the following file:

• Yours completed Ekvall’s dimensions of a creative climate assessment using the dimensions of the creative climate worksheet, which is in the resources for this module