The master's thesis examines the phenomenon of employee anxiety and its impact on creativity, with an emphasis on individual phases of the creative process. The main reason for the research is that the existing literature in the field of innovation management has not yet empirically verified how employee anxiety is related to individual phases of the creative process, since creativity has so far been studied only as a whole. The purpose of the master's thesis is therefore to examine how employee anxiety affects problem identification, idea generation, idea evaluation and their implementation.
The theoretical part includes a review of the existing literature in the field of management that discusses anxiety and creativity in the public sector and their connection, while the empirical part examines the impact of employee anxiety on individual phases of the creative process in eight different public sector organizations. The empirical part is based on a quantitative method, where data were collected using a questionnaire completed by 112 employees.
The results of the study did not confirm the assumptions about the relationship between anxiety and creativity, as the relationship between the two variables is shown in the form of a correctly inverted U-curve. Based on the results, it is concluded that anxiety does not have as strong an impact on creativity as other possible factors that can be traced in the literature (e.g. motivation).
The results and findings in this work contribute to a better understanding of employee anxiety and creativity and their mutual connection in the public sector. The findings obtained are of key importance for both employees and managers, who will be able to ensure the right relationship between anxiety and creativity with appropriate measures, in order to exploit the maximum creativity of employees in the public sector.
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