A strong point in this book is its opening extensive review of creativity in organizations and professions. . . including helpful tabulations of articles that identify the motives, expectations, emotions, means, and opportunities that lead to creative acts. . . . it can provide valuable insights and encouragement to scholars and practitioners who are concerned with developing and tapping creativity in organizations. . . . Management professors and graduate students will find the book helpful. . . . --G. David Hughes in Journal of Product Innovation Management "This book definitely will be appropriate for class use in any setting focused on creativity in organizations. Presumably, these would be specialized upper-division, MBA, or Ph.D. electives. If you are interested in the topic of creativity in organizations, this is the book you must read. It is on the frontiers, and it provides a beacon for future scholarly progress on this topic because of its emphasis on how the organizational setting affects the creative process in the world of work." --Lyman Porter, University of California, Irvine "The book is itself a creative approach to creativity. The editors have attracted a talented and well-respected group of academic contributors. The message that we should abandon the romantic but flawed notion that creativity is principally the product of extraordinary individual acts is delivered forcefully, as is the companion notion that organizational contexts are the real seedbeds of creative behavior." --John R. Kimberly, Henry Bower Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "This is one of the better collections of information about creativity because it is data based, and it provides a useful comparison and contrast of conceptual and practical aspects. By clearly describing the benefits and problems associated with the topics, Creative Action in Organizations obviously practices what it preaches. I would recommend that it be used as a textbook for a graduate-level business course, particularly for an MBA program. In addition, I also recommend that it be used as a text reference for industrial ?training & development? programs targeted at teaching employees how to develop new businesses, improve existing processes, or become better leaders (viz., corporate leadership development programs)." --Tom Wojcik, Manager, Office of Innovation, Hoechst Celanese Corporation Between the trade deficit, mergers, and the recession, the topic of creativity in organizations has become one of increasing importance. How does a company retool or refine its product with foreign and, often, less costly competition? How does human resources find creative solutions to budgeting, product development, marketing, and training? With pithy and engaging chapters from leading researchers and figures in business, government, and academia, Creative Action in Organizations explores the factors that are critical to the development and promotion of creativity to develop a revised view that is grounded in experience. This volume begins with a literature review (written as a mystery to be solved), followed by essays from researchers (Part II) and practitioners (Part III). Using the chapters as "data," the editors conclude with a content-analysis that presents a look at the most significant themes and offers a framework for conceptualizing creativity in organizations. This profound and fascinating volume is essential for students, professionals, and researchers in management and organization studies, public administration, public policy, evaluation, and psychology, as well as libraries in the above areas.

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SAGE Publications, Inc

Year

1995

Print ISBN

9780803953505, 9780803953499

eBook ISBN

9781452246529

Edition

Topic

Business

Subtopic

Business Ethics

Index

Business

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Contents
Foreword
Part 1 - Contemplating Creative Action in Organizations
Chapter 1 - Multiple Visions and Multiple Voices Academic and Practitioner Conceptions of Creativity in Organizations
Chapter 2 - Creativity Is a Mystery Clues from the Investigators’ Notebooks
Part II - Ivory Tower Visions
Chapter 3 - Boogie Down Wonderland Creativity and Visionary Leadership
Chapter 4 - Managing Creativity
Chapter 5 - Creativity and Entrepreneurship
Chapter 6 - Creative Values and Creative Visions in Teams at Work
Chapter 7 - Discovering the Unknowable, Managing the Unmanageable
Chapter 8 - Individual Creativity and Organizational Innovation an Uncertain Link
Chapter 9 - Creativity as Heroic Risk, Success, Failure, and Acclaim
Chapter 10 - Creativity It’s all in Your Social Network
Chapter 11 - The Role of Collaboration in Creativity
Chapter 12 - How Organizations Channel Creativity
Chapter 13 - Promoting Creativity in Organizations
Chapter 14 - The Many Facets of Creativity
Chapter 15 - Is your Creative Organization Innovative?
Chapter 16 - Training Creativity in the Corporation The View from the Psychological Laboratory
Chapter 17 - Q: Does Feedback Enhance or Inhibit Creativity in Organizations? A: Yes!
Chapter 18 - Everything New Under the Gun Creativity and Deadlines
Chapter 19 - Creativity Training and Hemispheric Function Bringing the Left Brain Back In
Chapter 20 - Management of Cultural Innovations
Chapter 21 - Why No One Really Wants Creativity
Chapter 22 - Shifting the Focus from Individual to Organizational Creativity
Chapter 23 - Ten Tips Toward Creativity in the Workplace
Chapter 24 - Creative Post-Processing on Making Turbulence Valuable
Chapter 25 - Creativity and the Aesthetics of Imperfection
Part III - Real World Voices
Chapter 26 - The Changing Face of Creativity
Chapter 27 - Corporate America Creativity Held Hostage
Chapter 28 - Coaching your Way to Creativity
Chapter 29 - Creating a Creativity Revolution
Chapter 30 - Creativity in a Large Company all you Have to Do is Ask for it
Chapter 31 - Creativity by Decree—A New Approach
Chapter 32 - Creativity and Innovation Keys for Preventing Environmental Gridlock
Chapter 33 - Creativity in Government
Chapter 34 - The Challenge of Reinventing State Government
Chapter 35 - Creativity Today
Chapter 36 - Are you Creating Solutions or Problems?
Chapter 37 - Organizing for Innovation from Individual Creativity to Learning Networks
Chapter 38 - Principle-Based Creativity Prompting Individual Initiative in Large Organizations
Chapter 39 - Membranes for Gas Separation a Case Study in Creativity
Chapter 40 - Why Do you Have to Go “Off-Campus’’ to Get Creative?
Chapter 41 - The Pro-Team Solving the Dilemma of Organized Creativity in Production
Chapter 42 - Fostering Creativity in Large Organizations
Chapter 43 - Creativity at Woolworth Corporation
Chapter 44 - Acquiring and Managing Creative Talent
Chapter 45 - Creativity Through Self-Appraisal
Chapter 46 - Organizing for Creativity
Chapter 47 - Ideas Dancing in the Human Being
Chapter 48 - Gee Whiz!—So What?
Part VI - Understanding and Influencing Creativity in Organizations
Chapter 49 - Contrasts and Convergences in Creativity Themes in Academic and Practitioner Views
Chapter 50 - Strilung Inspirational Sparks and Fanning Creative Flames a Multi-Domain Model of Creative Action Taking
Chapter 51 - Guidelines for Creative Action Taking in Organizations
Index
Editor Profiles
Research Contributor Profiles
Management Contributor Profiles

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