Managing Creativity In Organizations

Author : A. Styhre,M. Sundgren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230505575

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Managing Creativity in Organizations by A. Styhre,M. Sundgren Pdf

Managing Creativity in Organizations addresses the notion of organizational creativity and innovation in general, and explores in some detail how it is achieved. The first part of the book critically reviews the literature on creativity. The second half explores the management of organizational creativity in the pharmaceutical industry. Here issues such as technology, cognition and leadership are introduced as central resources and practices in the management of organizational creativity and innovation. The research is based on management practices in four companies, all of whom have demonstrated a significant ability to exploit their organizational creativity.

Author : Alexander Styhre,Mats Sundgren
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1403947686

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Managing Creativity in Organizations by Alexander Styhre,Mats Sundgren Pdf

Issues such as organization learning, knowledge management and creativity in organizations are increasingly of interest to academics and practitioners. Few books offer an integrated critique and evaluation of the recent discussions on organizational creativity. Written for academics, managers and consultants, this book fills that gap and investigates what organizational creativity is in practice.

Author : Richard Luecke
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Creative ability
ISBN : 9781591391128

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Harvard Business Essentials by Richard Luecke Pdf

Innovation is an undisputed catalyst for company growth, yet many managers across industries fail to create a climate that encourages and rewards innovation. Managing Creativity and Innovation explores the manager's role in sparking organizational creativity and offers insight into what managers and leaders must do to increase successful innovation. Contents include: Generating new ideas and recognizing opportunities Moving innovation to market Removing mental blocks to creativity Establishing a strategic direction for profitable product development Brainstorming and fostering creative conflict within groups Creating an innovation-friendly culture Plus, readers can access free interactive tools on the Harvard Business Essentials companion web site. Series Adviser: Ralph Katz Dr. Katz is professor of management at Northeastern University's College of Business and in the Management of Technology Group of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. He has carried out extensive management research on technology-based innovation with emphasis in the management of technical professionals and project teams. Harvard Business Essentials The Reliable Source for Busy Managers The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these concise guides are carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience. To assure quality and accuracy, each volume is closely reviewed by a specialized content adviser from a world class business school. Whether you are a new manager interested in expanding your skills or an experienced executive looking for a personal resource, these solution-oriented books offer reliable answers at your fingertips.

Author : Howard Davis,Richard Scase
Publisher : Managing Work and Organization
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 033520693X

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Managing Creativity by Howard Davis,Richard Scase Pdf

The creative industries are a growing economic as well as cultural force. This book investigates their organizational dynamics and shows how companies structure their work processes to incorporate creative employees' needs for autonomy while at the same time controlling and coordinating their output. Research in television and radio broadcasting, publishing, advertising, the recorded music industry and the performing arts is used to show the variety of ways in which organizations respond to the creative imperative. The authors help to answer a larger question which has been neglected in theories of management and organizational behaviour, namely: what should replace the management principles and practices inherited from industrial society in the types of organization which predominate in post-industrial society? The arguments and evidence are made accessible to a multidisciplinary audience of students and researchers with an interest in the study of organizations as well as to managers in the creative industries.

Author : José Ramos,Neil Anderson,José M. Peiró,Fred Zijlstra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351401562

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Creativity and Innovation in Organizations by José Ramos,Neil Anderson,José M. Peiró,Fred Zijlstra Pdf

This book reflects on the increasing variety of perspectives in organizational innovation research, paying attention to the antecedents, but also to the outcomes, of innovation. Some chapters analyze the ‘dark side’ of innovation, including the potential negative consequences of innovative behaviors, or of defying the innovation maximization fallacy. Others explicitly consider affective responses after innovation efforts, and assume that positive or negative effects rely on the context in which innovations occur, and on the way in which people manage the process of innovation. Several contributions adopt the dialectic approach by considering the multiple pathways and mechanisms that could lead to innovation at organizations. Most of the chapters include the interaction of actors’ characteristics (from employees or teams) together with situational constraints from the task or the social context, and outline the relevance of processes like team learning; motivation variables like basic need satisfaction; congruence of motives or meaningfulness at work; dynamics of communication networks; and affective variables. This edited collection offers a rich picture of current research and management trends in the field and contributes constructively toward promoting the dialectic perspective on creativity and innovation in the workplace. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.

Author : Ronald Kay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642748967

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Managing Creativity in Science and Hi-Tech by Ronald Kay Pdf

The growing role of science and technology in modern society has generated a need for unique management skills on the part of scientists and engineers. While this need is widely recognized, there is little agreement on the most appropriate way in which it should be satisfied. The general literature on management does not usually recognize the problems that are unique to those engaged in science and high technology. This lack is also reflected in the considerable variety of formal management training, which more often than not has missed its mark, at least when judged by the response of participating scientists and engineers. My recent experience, teaching graduate students and prac ticing scientists and engineers about those aspects of manage ment that are likely to be most relevant to their future endea vors, has been the principle motivation for this book. The book reflects some of what I have learned from that experience and has been further encouraged by the convic tions that (1) the distribution of management potential among engi neers and scientists is no different from that of other groups with comparable academic achievement; (2) successfully managed scientific and technical enterprise provides the most useful source of learning, and (3) the process of learning is facilitated by referring to the experience that has proven effective in creating an environ ment in which scientific and technical enterprise has flour ished.

Author : Chris Bilton,Stephen Cummings
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781000977

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Handbook of Management and Creativity by Chris Bilton,Stephen Cummings Pdf

'In many organisations creativity is so often seen as the preserve of a small number of people with "artistic temperaments" but in my experience all sorts of people have creative abilities which can be used to the benefit of a "creative" organisation. The task of a manager is to find ways of exploiting this. This Handbook provides the reader with insights to help them and others to promote the kind of creativity that adds real value.' - Greg Dyke, Chair, British Film Institute; Chair, Football Association; Chancellor, University of York, UK and Director-General of the BBC 2000-2004

Author : Harvard Business Review
Publisher : Harvard Business School Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Creative ability
ISBN : 0867351802

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Managing Creativity by Harvard Business Review Pdf

Author : Barbara Townley,Nic Beech
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107403731

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Managing Creativity by Barbara Townley,Nic Beech Pdf

What are the challenges and opportunities of managing people in creative industries? How are the tensions between creative and commercial pressures mediated? The creative industries are an area of increasing economic importance. Yet creative industries and creative-based organizations are rife with problems such as whether and how control of the creative process should be exercised; the extent to which knowledge of creative production may be made explicit; and how the 'connection' between producer and consumer should be mediated. In Managing Creativity a team of experts from a diverse range of fields - including management, fine art, music, the internet, design, theatre and publishing - discuss these and other problems concerning the relationship between management and creativity. Developing an appreciation of these problems is theoretically productive, not only because it throws light onto our understanding of creative-based organizations, but also because it can be revelatory about organizations more generally.

Author : Institute of Leadership & Management
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136385414

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Managing Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace by Institute of Leadership & Management Pdf

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units).

Author : Gordon Torr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119995319

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Managing Creative People by Gordon Torr Pdf

A clash between the ideology of growth and the growth of ideas, between control and creativity, between measurement and the immeasurable, between predictability and the fickle muses of inspiration in engulfing our boardrooms. In this scathing swipe at the institutionalised idiocy that is stifling creativity just at the time the world needs it most Gordon Torr draws from the leading lights of creativity research to demolish the myths that surround the generation of ideas in the modern organisation. The curse of the brainstorm, the commoditisation of creative talent, the deskilling of the imagination, the startling inadequacies of management theory – these and the many other horrors of idea-assassination that run rampant in creative sector companies are dissected and disembowelled in this hilarious expose of the drama that unfolds every time a new idea slides across the boardroom table. This book sets out to address the black hole that surrounds the management of creative people, debunking many myths of creativity, and outlining a revolutionary approach to the pressing issue of creative productivity in the contemporary creative sector company. A handbook of tools, techniques, methods and practical ideas whose USP is a framework for thinking about efficient creative management – how to extract value from creative time. Gordon Torr presents a logical argument that puts in place the building blocks of the author’s knowledge and experience towards the final architecture. “We need them as never before. And we know that they’re somehow different. Yet the productive management of creative people is an almost totally neglected science. I doubt if there’s a single industry that wouldn’t gain immediate advantage from Gordon Torr’s scrupulous and enlightening detective work.” - Jeremy Bullmore

Author : Julia Dall
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656084181

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Innovative products in creative companies: how to manage to develop them by Julia Dall Pdf

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensführung, Management, Organisation, Freie Universität Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Environment, both social and institutional, plays nearly the main part in establishment of creativity in the company. It exists on every enterprise and can serve as the base for spreading the ideas and attitudes to work among the staff, especially in the hands of experienced leaders. Technology in terms of our topic is an educational element in the system of management. Openness and Diversity represent the collective of the company, when different people, sometimes employees of different positions and statuses are open for communication and equal collaboration in the name of the firm’s progress and prosperity. And of course the main part in creativity is Human Capital. They are part of the environment, they can alter the environment and together in cooperation they can create innovative ideas. Usually human capital is most flexible and therefore most creative at the time of the company’s start up, when there is no gap between the leaders of the company and the other staff. Leaders think globally and with their own example infect the ordinary staff in close communication with ideas and with the need to innovate. But with the company’s growth, the amount of the staff grows, there appears the middle layer – managers, who become the connecting link between the leaders of the firm and the staff, and the feeling of unity usually weakens and finally disappears. After analyzing information about how creational the management system of big market players is we found that not every company’s creational environment can fight the crisis of becoming a solid corporation. Information technology in its turn is the field which has more opportunities for innovation and creation than any other due to the fact that it is a new and still developing sphere. That is why we were interested to study an example of a company dealing with a more traditional field where usually success means to follow a prevailing standard. Now we can conclude that creative management can be achieved with the help of two nearly opposite and a little bit contradictive approaches. And we can call them Western-American approach and Eastern-Japanese one. Both have the right to exist and be implemented, both can bring impressive results. The difference between them is in where to put them into practice. Each cultural and geographical environment has the prerequisites to chose one or another depending on which is closer to their mentality: the examples of Google Way or the Toyota Way.

Author : John J. Kao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015001147611

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Managing Creativity by John J. Kao Pdf

Author : Harvard Business Review
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Creative ability
ISBN : 0867351810

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Managing Creativity by Harvard Business Review Pdf

Author : Fiorenza Belussi,Udo Hermann Staber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136701757

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Managing Networks of Creativity by Fiorenza Belussi,Udo Hermann Staber Pdf

The aim of the Managing Networks of Creativity is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management (including strategic management, organization science, organizational behaviour, and entrepreneurship), economics, sociology, regional studies, and political science. While research on creativity has made several important contributions to the theoretical literature, little attention has been paid to the development and testing of formal theoretical models, especially in those cases where creativity is the result not so much of individual behaviour than the outcome of collective efforts, connecting individuals in organizations, social networks, projects, geographic clusters, and so forth. The proposed volume includes studies, both conceptual and empirical, which, as a whole, "deconstruct" the concept of creativity and the management of creativity by identifying specific situations, contexts, firms, clusters, and districts in which creative processes evolve. The reader is provided with in-depth discussions of theoretical issues and a range of descriptive cases and survey data that the authors use to explore or test concepts and models. Overall, the volume aims to integrate current debates concerning the role of creativity (and innovation) in economic and social development.