%0 Journal Article %T How physical and non-physical working environment affects creativity: An empirical study %A Abbas Sheykhan %A Abbas Saghaee %J Management Science Letters %D 2011 %I Growing Science %X Creativity is one of the most important factors to increase the productivity of any organization. There are literally different factors influencing creativity such as physical and non-physical components of a system. There are different studies to confirm that both physical and non-physical issues could impact the efficiency, significantly. The study of this paper considers eleven physical and ten non-physical activities in working environment of six organizations with various business activities of educational, manufacturing and service business. The study summarizes the most and the least important physical and non-physical factors based on some statistical tests. %K Creativity %K Human resources %K Productivity %K Physical and non-physical activities %U http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol1/msl_2011_8.pdf