Public sector creativity—public servants coming up with novel and useful ideas—is the origin of solutions and innovations central to public sector organizations' ability to optimally serve society's interests. Despite its relevance and argued limitations, an adequate scale and framework to assess public servants' creativity remained absent. Using three quantitative (n = 2434/n = 1157/n = 621) and two qualitative datasets, this state-of-the-art preregistered study provides a novel, valid, reliable, comprehensive but succinct multidimensional measurement tool allowing detailed assessment of states and changes of public servants' creativity by academics and practitioners. To aid academics and practitioners' understanding of the scale and public sector creativity, it also provides a supplementary theoretical framework in line with the data structure of the scale that compresses and structures extant theory on creativity while emphasizing what is indicated as important in the public sector. The findings shed light on the nature of public sector creativity as an aggregate and multidimensional construct.

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衡量公共部门创造力的构建：制定经过验证的量表

公共部门创造力（公务员提出新颖有用的想法）是解决方案和创新的源泉，对于公共部门组织以最佳方式服务社会利益的能力至关重要。尽管其相关性和局限性，但仍然缺乏评估公务员创造力的适当规模和框架。 这项最先进的预注册研究使用三个定量（n  = 2434/ n  = 1157/ n = 621）和两个定性数据集，提供了一种新颖、有效、可靠、全面但简洁的多维测量工具，可以对状态进行详细评估以及学者和实践者对公务员创造力的改变。为了帮助学者和从业者理解规模和公共部门创造力，它还提供了一个符合规模数据结构的补充理论框架，压缩和构建了现有的创造力理论，同时强调了公共部门中重要的内容。研究结果揭示了公共部门创造力作为一个总体和多维结构的本质。