Warm up time at workplace corrects creativity power imbalance in office Study
Updated On: 20 April, 2023 06:21 PM IST | Washington | ANI
The study found that understanding ways to boost the creativity of lower-power workers can help them navigate this low-power disadvantage, generate more creative ideas and promote a more equitable workplace
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Being in a powerful position is often known to increase an employee`s creativity because it tends to free the individual from constraints such as worrying that their ideas will be rejected at the workplace. Interestingly, a new research indicates that employees who aren`t in positions of power can also become creative if they are given time to "warm-up" to a task by engaging in it multiple times.
"This is important because when people with more power are able to express their creative ideas more than those with less power, it leads to a rich-get-richer dynamic that reinforces or exacerbates these power differentials," said Brian Lucas, assistant professor in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and co-author of "Low Power Warm-up Effect: Understanding the Effect of Power on Creativity Over Time," forthcoming in the July issue of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. "Understanding ways to boost the creativity of lower-power workers can help them navigate this low-power disadvantage, generate more creative ideas and promote a more equitable workplace," Lucas said.
In the study, Lucas and his co-authors found that although low-power individuals are less creative than high-power individuals at the beginning of a creative task, they can eventually catch up and match high-power individuals` creativity. This is because the creative task provided feelings of autonomy and liberation that eventually help them overcome their low-power disadvantage, the researchers said.
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