Reflection on 'Componential Theory of Creativity', Amabile (2012).

Individual and external factors to creativity!

When I read these four components of creativity, Amabile (2012), number of life and work experiences recount in my mind. Among many, I vividly remember the designing of tax deducted at source certificate for the internal staffs and external vendors (suppliers). Such thinking process came in me when pressure pushed me to the corner to manage and handle hundreds of staffs and external vendor payments. Owing to the shortage of staffs in Finance and Accounts Department, we need to sometimes work during the weekend and holidays. Looking at my colleague struggling to manually feeding in the data in the Excel Sheet for TDS Certificate for every employee and vendors, I just thought if we could develop an interface that links the internal system with the tax details of Tax Department. With my expertise knowledge in this field of system application and cognitive process of creating this interface, I had task motivation of making this job easier and quicker. Other friends and management were very supportive of my idea that drives me further developing such interface. I developed TDS certificate interface that produces the certificate with a click of a mouse.

The examples of missed chance of creativity can be the case when there is absence of original ideas or value creation to the existing product, service or idea. For example, in most of the corporate culture, there is not enough time and space for the staffs to think it over the problem. Every organisation runs after the time to finish the assigned tasks.

#When you are creative and when you are not?