Data elicitation for continuous awareness of team climate characteristics to improve organizations' creativity

Abstract

The creativeness of a company's employees depends on the characteristics of working climates, e.g. autonomy or appropriate workload. Tools for their assessment exist, but the frequency of their application is too low to detect the relevant dynamics which characterize the varying challenges of agile and learning organizations. The evaluation of a first prototype to monitor these dynamics by frequently repeating a common online employee survey revealed relevant features to overcome a lack of acceptance of answering the same question items in repetition. Three variables were identified which influence the acceptance of a repeated question: The time since it had last been answered, the user's current willingness to participate and the user's situation. Based on these variables, a new prototype offers users more self-determination in their rate of participation, allows for assigning dynamic repetition rates to every question item, and exploits context information to optimize the prompting of users.