The Effects of Individual and Organizational Factors on Creativity in Sustainable Supply Chains

Human Resource management is among the most critical issues of supply chain management. However, in today's rivalry world, the supply chains should be flexible enough to adapt tomarket changes. In this regard, designers and executive engineers play a crucial role in responding to market needs, affecting the supply chain system reconfiguring and developing sustainable systems accordingly. This study evaluates the impact of individual and social harmful factors on creativity inaction period in supply chains. The subjects consisted of 362 experts in supply chains using clustering sampling. For this purpose, two questionnaires are designed based on Mood and Feeling Questionnaire (MFQ). The reliability showed that Cronbach's Alphas were 0.953 and 0.797 for individual and social questionnaires, respectively. Results show that the harmful individual and social factors impose adverse effects on individual employees that cause different inaction periods named short-term, long-term, and organizational death of individual creativity inertia.