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Public servants are critical assets to a government's success. And governments are seeking more creativity in their public services to deal effectively with wicked and complex issues. There is hope that creative public servants can create opportunities by generating novel and useful ideas, products, services and procedures. Prior research shows that an organizational climate impacts how public servants perform in their relevant job tasks and is a salient antecedent of public servants' creativity. The current research generates an inventory of organizational climate elements that are likely to boost public servants' creative behaviour. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with 13 carefully selected public servants working at Saskatchewan Government ministries; the research findings recommend eight relevant organizational climate elements: meaningful work, organizational vision, autonomy, slack resources, supervisory support, deliberation, diversity, and organizational willingness to takes risks, in order to advance individual creativity at the public sector. Implications of the current study findings for public sector institutions are thoroughly discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]