Creative Action in Organizations : Ivory Tower Visions & Real World Voices.

Creativity in organizations has become an issue of great importance, but how does a company encourage personnel to find creative solutions to budgeting, product development, marketing and training? With engaging contributions from leading academics and professionals, this book explores the key facto...

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Main Author: Ford, Dr. Cameron M. M.
Other Authors: Gioia, Denny A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1995.
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520 |a Creativity in organizations has become an issue of great importance, but how does a company encourage personnel to find creative solutions to budgeting, product development, marketing and training? With engaging contributions from leading academics and professionals, this book explores the key factors that are critical to the development and promotion of creativity in any organization. 
505 0 |a Cover; 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. 
505 8 |a Chapter 8 -- Individual Creativity and Organizational Innovation an Uncertain LinkChapter 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
505 8 |a Chapter 25 -- Creativity and the Aesthetics of ImperfectionPart 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. 
505 8 |a Chapter 35 -- Creativity TodayChapter 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. 
505 8 |a Chapter 44 -- Acquiring and Managing Creative Talent. 
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