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“To get creative results, managers should seek to understand employees‘ motivational orientations in context, so the combination of individual disposition and bureaucratic context yields the most desirable associations with creativity.

Decentralization
brings out the best in learning-oriented employees and attenuates (mildern) the negative of an avoid orientation on creativity. Thus, from a creativity perspective, decentralized decision making is attractive, even when it does little for prove oriented individuals.

Formalized practices
Although the creativity of prove-oriented individuals thrives in less formalized contexts, low formalization actually brings out undesirable tendencies in avoid-oriented team members.

the conclusion would be that creativity is best obtained by (where possible) not selecting avoid-oriented individuals for a team, while creating a team context characterized by high levels of decentralized  decision making and low formalization, to let learning-oriented and prove-oriented individuals flourish.“