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Given increasingly turbulent environments, heightened competition, and unpredictable technological change, more and more managers are coming to realize that they should encourage their employees to be creative (Shalley & Gilson, 2004). Considerable evidence indicates that employee creativity can fundamentally contribute to organizational innovation, effectiveness, and survival. Employee's creativity is defined as the keystone of organizational change, starting point of innovation and a major key of effectiveness in organizing (Amabile, 1996; Woodman, Sawyer, &Griffin, 1993). Creativity is a very complex interaction between a person, and culture (Amabile, 1996; Woodman, Sawyer, & Griffin, 1993). Creativity is the initiation of novel and useful idea or solution (Amabile, 1996; Woodman, Sawyer, & Griffin, 1999).
From few decades, organization deals with managerial challenge such as coordinating business in a different organizational culture, it is necessary to recognize the influence of organizational culture on employee's creativity. We consider that the organization culture an appropriate concept to illustrate how much employee's creativity influenced by different human factor.
Organizational culture is very diverse and complicated to understand, due to much variation between country to country, land to land. Organizational culture develops by a process of different factors which influences the employee's cognitive state or mental state. We will further review the literature to find out the cultural diversification by time and in individual activities and organizational functioning. Organizational culture has dominant values and traditional norms, which creates the perception of...