Worker's Creativity Attitude And It's Characteristics

Creativity attitude is an individual's cognitive, emotional and behavioral tendency towards innovative things, ideas and activities. Worker's creativity attitude is a worker's creativity attitude towards his work. It includes his attitudes towards both work and creativity. There are very few researchers on creativity attitude both home and abroad, still fewer measurements on worker's creativity attitude. The purposes of this study were to develop Worker's Creativity Attitude Questionnaire and explore the characteristics of worker's creativity attitude.Based on literature summary, open-ended questionnaire responses of 45 managers and psychology majors, individual interviews of some of the subjects, and some experts' opinion, a theoretical hypothesis and a preliminary questionnaire on worker's creativity attitude was developed. After a testing and the following psychometric analysis, a formal questionnaire was formed. 659 workers were testified with the formal questionnaire, the results are:The self-made Worker's Creativity Questionnaire is of good validity and reliability. Two dimensions (creativity tendency and work tendency) and seven factors (openness to innovation, self-confidence about creativity, tendency toward problem-solving and rising to challenges, attitude toward changes, tendency toward study and thinking, problem-finding and chance-grasping, identification with work and it's innovative values) were identified by factor analysis.There were no statistically significant sex and workage differences on each factor and dimension of worker's creativity attitude, nor were their interactions with other factors.There were statistically significant occupation and education differences on each factor and dimension of worker's creativity attitude. There were also statisticallysignificant differences of interactions of occupation and education on each factor and dimension.Of the four levels of education, high schoolers, junior undergraduates and undergraduates showed statistically significant occupation differences on each factor and dimension of worker's creativity attitude. Graduates and above showed statistically significant occupation differences on factor 'tendency toward problem-solving and rising to challenges', factor 'tendency toward study and thinking', and factor 'identification with work and it's innovative values'and dimension "work tendency"Of the six levels of occupation, clerks and managers showed no statistically significant education differences on each factor and dimension of worker's creativity attitude. Compilers showed statistically significant education differences on factor 'identification with work and its innovative values', factor 'self-confidence on creativity', factor 'attitude toward changes', dimension 'creativity tendency' and the whole questionnaire. Journalists showed statistically significant education differences on factor 'identification with work and its innovative values', dimension 'work tendency' and the whole questionnaire. Salesmen showed statistically significant education differences on factor 'tendency toward study and thinking'. Programmers showed statistically significant education differences on each factor and dimension of worker's creativity attitude.