Relação entre condições para criar e estratégias de aprendizagem no ambiente de trabalho

This study aimed to identify the relationship between the conditions to create and use learning strategies in the workplace of a network of social and sports clubs nationwide. The concept of organizational creativity was understood as "the generation of ideas, processes, products and/or new services for that individual, group, or in that context that can generate valuable contributions to the organization and/or for the welfare of the people working in that context and that have essential elements to their implementation" and the concept of learning strategies as" practices that people use to support the acquisition of knowledge and skills in their professional context". The survey was conducted with 198 permanent employees from different units of the network of clubs through the application of a structured questionnaire available electronically, containing two instruments measure. The Indicators of Conditions to Create in the Workplace (ICCW) composed of two scales, being the first dedicated to favorable conditions for creativity, consisting of 36 items and 6 factors, and the second dedicated to unfavorable conditions for creativity, with 24 items on 3 factors. The learning strategy scale used, made by Brandão and Andrade-Borges (2011), consists of 26 items distributed on 5 factors. Descriptive and exploratory analyzes were performed, and multivariate techniques such as factor analysis and Spearman correlation. The identification of evidence of validity revealed new factor structures for the scales of favorable conditions for creativity and learning strategy, passing both to be composed by four factors. There was more agreement on the presence of favorable conditions for creativity freedom of action and challenging activities and characteristics of the physical environment while for unfavorable condition was Excess Service and lack of time. Learning strategies indicated as more used were Practical application and active reflection and Interpersonal Help Seeking. Then, the positive association between favorable conditions for creativity with the learning strategies was found, as well as the negative association of some learning strategies with unfavorable conditions for creativity. Six of the nine first hypotheses formulated based on the literature have been confirmed empirically and eight other unforeseen relations have also been identified. The main results show that learning strategy interpersonal help Search is related to all the factors of conditions to create, Favorable or unfavorable, except with Communication difficulty and rigidity of rules and regulations in the organization, that had no relation to any learning strategy. The greatest effect relationships are the factor of favorable conditions Freedom of action and challenging activities with the learning strategies Practical application and active reflection, Interpersonal help seeking and Seeking help from written material. The favorable condition for creativity Stimulus to new ideas from colleagues, bosses and organizational actions is related to all learning strategies.