In the present study we investigated the creativity of successful people in Korean business settings. One hundred twenty seven people who demonstrated successful performance in the Korean society were selected first by a committee of experts. Reading and evaluating the scripts describing their life and performance, authors selected 43 most creative business people and collected 109 behavioral and personality characteristics. These were used to collect data for factor analysis. Eight factors were estimated: four of which representing leadership dimensions and the other four representing creativity dimensions. The latter included drive for achievement, free spirit, carrying out to new directions, and intrinsic motivation. We examined how they were related to five other creativity scales: self-rating scale we developed, divergent thinking ability test (Torrance, 1990), Gough's (1979) creative personality scale, Hurt-Joseph's (1977) innovativeness scale, and Kirton's (1976) adaption-innovation inventory. Our four factors were consistent with people's self-concept of creativity. Carrying out to new directions was the only significant personality factor predicting cognitive creativity. Our four factors were well related to other creative personality scales, especially the first dimensions (creativity, innovativeness, originality) of the three personality scales were well explained by our four factors, suggesting commonality between Korean and Western culture in regards to typical description of creative personality.
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