%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