Creative Action in Organizations: Ivory Tower Visions and Real World VoicesCameron M. Ford, Dennis A. Gioia SAGE Publications, 18 Ιουλ 1995 - 424 σελίδες 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. |
Περιεχόμενα
Chapter 1 Multiple Visions and Multiple Voices Academic and Practitioner Conceptions of Creativity in Organizations | 3 |
Chapter 2 Creativity Is a Mystery Clues from the Investigators Notebooks | 12 |
Part II Ivory Tower Visions | 51 |
Chapter 3 Boogie Down Wonderland Creativity and Visionary Leadership | 53 |
Chapter 4 Managing Creativity | 60 |
Chapter 5 Creativity and Entrepreneurship | 65 |
Chapter 6 Creative Values and Creative Visions in Teams at Work | 71 |
Chapter 7 Discovering the Unknowable Managing the Unmanageable | 77 |
Chapter 29 Creating a Creativity Revolution | 211 |
Chapter 30 Creativity in a Large Company all you Have to Do is Ask for it | 215 |
Chapter 31 Creativity by DecreeA New Approach | 220 |
Chapter 32 Creativity and Innovation Keys for Preventing Environmental Gridlock | 224 |
Chapter 33 Creativity in Government | 229 |
Chapter 34 The Challenge of Reinventing State Government | 233 |
Chapter 35 Creativity Today | 239 |
Chapter 36 Are you Creating Solutions or Problems? | 243 |
Chapter 8 Individual Creativity and Organizational Innovation an Uncertain Link | 82 |
Chapter 9 Creativity as Heroic Risk Success Failure and Acclaim | 88 |
Chapter 10 Creativity Its all in Your Social Network | 94 |
Chapter 11 The Role of Collaboration in Creativity | 100 |
Chapter 12 How Organizations Channel Creativity | 106 |
Chapter 13 Promoting Creativity in Organizations | 115 |
Chapter 14 The Many Facets of Creativity | 121 |
Chapter 15 Is your Creative Organization Innovative? | 125 |
Chapter 16 Training Creativity in the Corporation The View from the Psychological Laboratory | 131 |
Does Feedback Enhance or Inhibit Creativity in Organizations? A Yes | 137 |
Chapter 18 Everything New Under the Gun Creativity and Deadlines | 142 |
Chapter 19 Creativity Training and Hemispheric Function Bringing the Left Brain Back In | 149 |
Chapter 20 Management of Cultural Innovations | 155 |
Chapter 21 Why No One Really Wants Creativity | 161 |
Chapter 22 Shifting the Focus from Individual to Organizational Creativity | 167 |
Chapter 23 Ten Tips Toward Creativity in the Workplace | 173 |
Chapter 24 Creative PostProcessing on Making Turbulence Valuable | 181 |
Chapter 25 Creativity and the Aesthetics of Imperfection | 187 |
Part III Real World Voices | 193 |
Chapter 26 The Changing Face of Creativity | 195 |
Chapter 27 Corporate America Creativity Held Hostage | 201 |
Chapter 28 Coaching your Way to Creativity | 206 |
Chapter 37 Organizing for Innovation from Individual Creativity to Learning Networks | 248 |
Chapter 38 PrincipleBased Creativity Prompting Individual Initiative in Large Organizations | 254 |
Chapter 39 Membranes for Gas Separation a Case Study in Creativity | 259 |
Chapter 40 Why Do you Have to Go OffCampus to Get Creative? | 264 |
Chapter 41 The ProTeam Solving the Dilemma of Organized Creativity in Production | 268 |
Chapter 42 Fostering Creativity in Large Organizations | 275 |
Chapter 43 Creativity at Woolworth Corporation | 280 |
Chapter 44 Acquiring and Managing Creative Talent | 284 |
Chapter 45 Creativity Through SelfAppraisal | 290 |
Chapter 46 Organizing for Creativity | 296 |
Chapter 47 Ideas Dancing in the Human Being | 302 |
Chapter 48 Gee WhizSo What? | 308 |
Part VI Understanding and Influencing Creativity in Organizations | 315 |
Chapter 49 Contrasts and Convergences in Creativity Themes in Academic and Practitioner Views | 317 |
Chapter 50 Strilung Inspirational Sparks and Fanning Creative Flames a MultiDomain Model of Creative Action Taking | 330 |
Chapter 51 Guidelines for Creative Action Taking in Organizations | 355 |
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Editor Profiles | 376 |
Research Contributor Profiles | 379 |
Management Contributor Profiles | 390 |
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Creative Action in Organizations: Ivory Tower Visions and Real World Voices Cameron M. Ford,Dennis A. Gioia Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1995 |
Creative Action in Organizations: Ivory Tower Visions and Real World Voices Cameron M. Ford,Dennis A. Gioia Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1995 |
Creative Action in Organizations: Ivory Tower Visions and Real World Voices Cameron M. Ford,Dennis A. Gioia Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1995 |
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