Creative Organization Characteristics

• Open channels of communications are maintained.
• Contacts with outside sources are encouraged.
• Nonspecialists are assigned to problems.
• Ideas are evaluated on their merits rather than on the status of their originator.
• Management encourages experiments with new ideas rather than making “rational” prejudgments.
• Decentralization is practiced.
• Much autonomy is allowed professional employees.
• Management is tolerant of risk-taking.
• The organization is not run tightly or rigidly.
• Participative decision making is encouraged.
• Employees have fun.