1. Review below about Ekvall’s ten dimensions and provide your feedback by answering the following questions: o Do you agree or disagree with their suggested need for additional dimensions? o Were you surprised that Ekvall included only one negatively correlated dimension? How did they evaluate their organization in this area, and what conclusions can you draw from their evaluation? o Do you agree or disagree with their post about the dimension that is the most difficult to assess? Share your reasoning.
2. Review the creative climate assessments posted by your peers and provide your feedback by answering the following questions: o Based on the notes, did you disagree with any of the ten ratings in the assessments? o Do you think it would be more beneficial for your peers’ organizations to strengthen the strongest aspects of their creative climate or improve the weakest aspects? o What recommendations would you make to your peers’ organizations to improve their creative climate? For example, think about how established organizations with existing structures designed for efficient and effective use of resources can relax some of their restrictions to allow playfulness, freedom, and risk-taking without losing control of the things that allow it to be currently successful.
• 1 Dynamism and Liveliness
There appears to be a gap between the ideas around the dynamic of the situation when new things occur, as new practices, software, and changes are occurring daily, because the entire system of the firm is changing to an internal system that is being developed simultaneously. Things are occurring, but there have been significant setbacks, where timelines and deadlines are now years behind. So, although there is a lot of life and change, the atmosphere as it stands is not as positive as it was at the beginning of the project.
1 Playfulness and Humor
The atmosphere can be seen as relaxed within teams that have been together consistently or with strong managers. However, most departments are working double, if not triple, the work due to operating two systems simultaneously until the firm ultimately converts to the new system. Compliance, risk, testing, procedure, policy writing, development, research, and reorganizing how projects are managed have impacted the firm’s playfulness and humor.
1 Freedom
Within some departments, individuals are given autonomy to define their work on their own. However, this is not a common practice, especially during this time of heavy management oversight due to the lack of success within the project implementation.
1 Risk Taking
There is a high tolerance of uncertainty and ambiguity, as this project impacts the organization and is a brand-new concept for the community banking sector.
2 Idea Time
Like with freedom, some departments and leaders allow time to be allocated to new ideas. However, this has been slow within the last few months due to the current project demands.
1 Idea Support
Due to the
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