Readings in innovation / / edited by Stanley S. Gryskiewicz, David A. Hills

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910667031303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Greensboro, N.C., : Centre for Creative Leadership, c1992
• ISBN: 1-281-00105-8; 9786611001056; 1-932973-90-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GryskiewiczStanley S; HillsDavid A <1931-> (David Allen)
• Soggetti: Creative ability in business; Creative thinking; Organizational change; Organizational behavior
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers included are selected from the last 5 annually published proceedings of a conference called Creativity Week, held at the Center each year from 1978 through 1987.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Part One: Research""; ""Social Environments That Kill Creativity""; ""High Creativity Versus Low Creativity: What Makes the Difference?""; ""Creativity and Leadership: Causal Convergence and Divergence""; ""Adaptors and Innovators: Problem-solvers in Organizations""; ""Climate for Creativity: What to Measure? What to Say About It?""; ""Innovation Through Investment in People: The Consideration of Creative Styles""; ""Creating Healthy Change""; ""Facilitating Creative Problem-solving Groups""; ""Part Two: Practice""; ""Establishing a Corporate Environment for Stimulating Innovation""""Making Organizations Adaptive to Change: Eliminating Bureaucracy at Shenandoah Life""; ""Structuring for Innovation . . . and the Bottom Line""; ""Leading a Revolution in American Health Care""; ""Fostering Creativity and Innovation in a New-Product Research Group""; ""Creative Problem Solving""; ""Delivering Managed Service""; ""Growing Up ; Creative in America""; ""Part Three: Looking Ahead""; ""Visioning: Building Pictures of the Future""; ""The Era of Multiple Transformations: Megatrends for Adults""
• Sommario/riassunto: Each year from 1978 through 1987 the Center for Creative Leadership hosted an event called Creativity Week, during which a select group of researchers and practitioners would get together for a high-energy exchange of ideas on organizational creativity. Discussions explored such themes as individual innovation, creativity and teamwork, structuring the organization for innovation, and the relation of innovation to culture and technology. This book, which offers papers based on many of the best Creativity Week presentations, is thus a record of recent thinking, both practical and theoretical, on how organizational effectiveness can be improved.