A comparison of self-ratings and non-self-report measures of employee creativity

Human Relations

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1021-1047

  Ng, Thomas W H ^a   Feldman, Daniel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

biases; common method variance; creative industries; creativity; innovation; job design; leadership; meta analysis; self ratings; work environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864294277     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726712446015     Document Type: Article

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