Examining the factors influencing organizational creativity in professional sport organizations

Smith, Natalie L.; Green, B. Christine

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2020.02.003

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“…This finding extends Paek et al . (2022) and Smith and Green (2020) by emphasizing the creative belief systems of sport employees. The result also signifies the importance of having confidence in oneself (Chen, 2016) and the resulting influence on engagement.…”

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“…Organizational behavior in contemporary sport Sport organizations stand to benefit from hiring and developing employees that assist in achieving organizational effectiveness (Doherty, 1998). For this reason, sport management scholars have explored various topics to enhance the functionality of sport organizations including: job satisfaction (Swanson and Kent, 2017), turnover intentions (Lee and Chelladurai, 2018), job engagement (Svensson et al, 2021), job design (Schuetz et al, 2022), workplace passion (Anagnostopoulos et al, 2016), and creativity (Smith and Green, 2020). Recently, sport management scholars have considered psychological well-being of sport employees (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, in sport organizational settings, there have been limited studies that explore the concept of sport employees' creativity (e.g. Paek et al, 2022;Smith and Green, 2020), especially concerning their creative self-efficacy. Regarding the relationship between creative self-efficacy and job engagement, Chen (2016) found that employees experiencing higher levels of creative selfefficacy are more likely to utilize creative cognitive processes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Innovation is the key: identifying factors to increase career satisfaction and psychological well-being in millennial and generation Z sport employees

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PurposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate how to generate innovative work behaviors among Millennial and Generation Z sport employees and its impact on their career satisfaction and psychological well-being.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used structural equation modeling to examine the relationships among predictors of job engagement, innovative work behaviors, career satisfaction and psychological well-being. The model was tested across managerial sport employees of Division I athletics departments (N = 224).FindingsThe highlights of the study include job engagement's positive relationship with innovative work behaviors and the positive influence of innovative work behavior on career satisfaction and psychological well-being.Originality/valueThese findings signify the importance of considering job engagement and innovative work behaviors to develop a positive work experience for Millennial and Generation Z sport employees. Doing so is thought to be a critical step in cultivating an organizational competitive advantage via younger generations of sport employees.

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“…Innovation is a feature of commercial and non-profit sport organisations (Tjønndal, 2017;Winand et al, 2016). Focussing specifically on research addressing SGBs, like the ECB, it is stressed that there is increasing pressure on non-profit organisations to innovate in an increasingly crowded, commercialised and globalised sport and entertainment market to attract resources (Smith and Green, 2020;Winand and Hoeber, 2017). Equally, the hierarchical governance of sport and longstanding traditions associated with many sports can create barriers to change (Winand and Hoeber, 2017).…”

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Legitimating innovation through category positioning: a case study of The Hundred cricket competition

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PurposeIn response to increasing competition for consumer attention, sport governing bodies have innovated short-format, action-oriented versions of traditional sports to attract new fans. This article explores how sport governing bodies (SGBs) manage the need for innovations to both conform to existing stakeholder expectations whilst offering novel benefits in comparison to competition (i.e. legitimate distinctiveness).Design/methodology/approachCreated by the English Cricket Board (ECB), The Hundred competition was used as a case study to explore the conformity-differentiation tension through a legitimacy lens using document and media analysis.FindingsSeven themes were created to explain how the ECB managed legitimacy tensions: rule modification, team creation, scheduling, game-day experience, broadcasting, gender equity and sponsorship. In each theme, differentiation and conformity were traded-off by the ECB to prioritise pragmatic legitimacy with broadcasters and sponsors.Practical implicationsFor sport management professionals, the Hundred demonstrates the commercial value of differentiating new sporting events from competitors via hybrid broadcasting partnerships, embedded gender equity and designing game-day experiences that attract hard-to-reach consumer demographics.Originality/valueSGBs must trade-off legitimacy between sources when innovating to survive, and when faced with conflicting expectations, commercial imperatives determined whether to conform or differentiate.

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“…Further, an essential role in mediation is supporting innovation (Bosselut, Guilbert, & Chareyre, 2020), one dimension of organizational climate, which significantly influences employees' attitudes related to their achievement (Tuna, 2014). In that atmosphere for support for innovation, organizational creativity is determined from the work environment, employee social interactions, and creativity (Smith, & Green, 2020). These authors highlighted that the sports industry could consider as unique in its approach to creativity management.…”

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Marketing Concept in Elite Team Sports Clubs in Serbia: Impact of Leadership Styles, Organizational Learning Culture, and Climate for Innovation

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2022

Monten. J Sports Sci. Med.

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This research tested the interactions among organizational learning culture, leadership styles, climate for innovation, and marketing concept of sports clubs in team sports. The study included elite sport managers (N=118), from four team sports (football, basketball, handball, and volleyball), who participated in the highest rank of national competition in Serbia. The organizational learning culture was measured with attitudes of respondents about the organizational learning culture at individual, team or group level, and organization as dichotomous variables, while leadership styles used the MLQ self-assessment questionnaire. The climate for innovation scale was measured with scales for assessing organizational support for creativity, maladaptation, support for innovation, and resource supply. The presence/absence of components of the different marketing mix aspects was measured as a four-dimensional variable for evaluation marketing concept. The results supported the mediation and path models. Direct effect to variable marketing concept is noticed only in the organizational learning culture, while climate for innovations and leadership style did not have a direct effect on the marketing concept. Indirect effects revealed that the status of the sports branch, the market position of each club in its sport competitive results, and the education background of managers' impact marketing concept in team sports in Serbia. The theoretical and practical contributions of obtaining results are discussed.

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Examining the factors influencing organizational creativity in professional sport organizations

Cited by 22 publications

References 142 publications

Innovation is the key: identifying factors to increase career satisfaction and psychological well-being in millennial and generation Z sport employees

Innovation is the key: identifying factors to increase career satisfaction and psychological well-being in millennial and generation Z sport employees

Legitimating innovation through category positioning: a case study of The Hundred cricket competition

Marketing Concept in Elite Team Sports Clubs in Serbia: Impact of Leadership Styles, Organizational Learning Culture, and Climate for Innovation

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