scholarly journals Features of collective creativity and definition of creative potential in modern organizations

HUMANITARIUM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-168
Author(s):  
Polina Shalnieva

The article provides a theoretical analysis of the problem of management of collective creativity in organizations. The relevance of identifying creative employees in companies and encouraging the manifestation of creative decisions among all staff, the importance of developing the creativity of the individuals and the group as a whole are substantiated. Studies that prove that creativity plays an critical role in the management of the organization and the company's competitiveness in the labor market are analyzed. The key concepts that underlie collective creativity are considered: creative decisions, creative abilities, innovative activity, favorable climate of the organization, etc. The specifics of creativity in connection with managerial and psychological aspects are revealed. There are two main categories of creativity research at the organizational level: the characteristics of members of the organization and the characteristics of the organization that promote and develop the creative abilities of employees. The characteristics of support for collective creativity in the organization are highlighted: strategy (strategies with an emphasis on innovation indicate the need for creativity and innovation in organizations), organizational culture (organizational culture that affects how employees value creativity, as a challenge to different subcultures to interact with each other to gain shared experience), methods (as the need for formal and informal methods to encourage interactions, methods that are developed in relevance to the specific needs and context of the organization), leadership (as support for creativity, where leaders could set goals for creativity and encourage employees to use the full potential of individual employees and collective creativity).

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg G. Wang ◽  
David Lamond ◽  
Yichi Zhang

Purpose – This article aims to highlight the importance of creativity and innovation in Chinese HRM research and practice. The authors first seek to bring some conceptual clarity to the term “innovation”, especially in relation to the notion of creativity. The authors then discuss Chinese HRM research and policies and practices associated with innovation. The authors conclude the article by introducing the forum articles that constitute this issue of the journal. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review and analysis. Findings – The authors discuss the conceptual difference and similarity between innovation and creativity. The literature analysis shows that Chinese HRM research is in a transitioning stage from local private novelty to global novelty, and innovation at individual and organizational level is determined by a sound national innovation system (NIS) that either fosters or hinders the overall ability of innovation in a sub-system. Originality/value – The article differentiates creativity and innovation conceptually and specifies the critical role of NIS in fostering innovation ability at individual and organizational levels.


2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebru Gökalp ◽  
Onur Demirörs ◽  
P. Erhan Eren

Personnel management plays a critical role in the success of public organizations. Our literature review shows that there is a lack of systematic guidance on how to improve Public Personnel Management Process (PPMP) quality. Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE) is a process assessment framework that is successfully used by software organizations during the past two decades. The framework can also be used as a baseline to generate process capability models for different specific domains/sectors. We have utilized this approach for the government domain and we developed the process definition of PPMP. To observe the benefits and usability of the model, we have performed a multiple case study, including the assessments of three organizations’ PPMP capability levels and the development of action plans for PPMP improvement. The findings show that the proposed approach is applicable for identifying the PPMP capability levels and is capable of providing a roadmap for moving to the next level.


Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4959 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-178
Author(s):  
RODRIGO M. BARAHONA-SEGOVIA ◽  
PAMELA RIERA ◽  
LAURA PAÑINAO-MONSÁLVEZ ◽  
VICENTE VALDÉS GUZMÁN ◽  
PATRICIA HENRÍQUEZ-PISKULICH

Syrphidae, more commonly known as flower flies, are considered one of the most important Diptera families worldwide because of their critical role in pollination, biological control and decomposition of organic matter. The study of these flies in Chile has stagnated due to a lack of local experts as well as the absence of an updated catalog of species. This study is an attempt to remedy the latter of these issues by providing an illustrated and updated catalog to the Syrphidae of Chile. Species are presented under currently accepted names, with synonyms and previous combinations listed and original references. Type localities, world and Chilean distribution by geopolitical Chilean regions, taxonomic and biological notes, a complete record of bibliographic references and extinction risk under IUCN Red List criteria are provided. This catalog recognizes 132 species of Syrphidae, belonging to four subfamilies (Eristalinae, Microdontinae, Pipizinae and Syrphinae), 13 tribes and 47 genera. A total of 46 species (34.84 %) is restricted to the geopolitical territory of Chile. Eight species are considered exotic, one is considered incertae sedis and three are based on doubtful records. Seventeen species of 10 different genera (Copestylum Macquart, 1846; Dolichogyna Macquart, 1842; Eosalpingogaster Hull, 1949b; Eupeodes Osten Sacken, 1877; Meromacrus Rondani, 1848; Palpada Macquart, 1834; Paragus Latreille, 1804; Sphiximorpha Rondani, 1850; Sterphus Philippi, 1865 and Toxomerus Macquart, 1855) are reported from Chile for the first time. A total of 44 species (33.33 %) reported from Chile are directly threatened by human activities such as agriculture, forestry, mining and/or urbanization and indirectly by climate change. The gaps found in the geographic distribution of Chilean flower fly species and what it means for its use by disciplines such as ecology, floral biology and agronomy, are discussed. In addition, the use of this illustrated catalog for biological conservation, the potential definition of priority areas and ecosystem management plans based on this group of Diptera are also discussed. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 123 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Debbie H. Kim ◽  
Kelly Krupa Rifelj

Background Promise programs are a quickly spreading policy tool in the free college movement. Despite their rapid spread, promise programs remain generally untested and there is even less information about how they are implemented. Research Questions (1) In what ways were The Degree Project's (TDP) theory of change and intents represented in messaging materials to students and to school staff? 1(a) In what ways did these messages shape conditions (or not) for sensemaking? (2) In what ways did these messages support (or not) students and school staff in changing their practice? (2a) What changes in practice did we see (or not) for students and school staff? Intervention TDP, which was implemented in Milwaukee Public Schools between 2011–15, is the nation's first randomized control trial of a promise program. Freshmen in the treatment group were offered $12,000 for college if they met particular requirements (e.g., average 2.5 GPA, 90% attendance). TDP leaned heavily on marketing materials and personalized letters to students, families, and school staff to communicate its requirements and to provide college access tips. Research Design We analyze messaging materials, climate and exit survey data, and student and school staff interviews to understand how TDP's theory of change and intents were packaged into messaging materials and ultimately enacted among target students and staff. Findings TDP implementation was successful to a point. School staff handed out messaging materials; students understood the requirements and demonstrated an increase in motivation and desire to go to college. However, TDP failed to meet its goal of sending more students to college. Expectations for school staff (hand out flyers and speak to students) versus students were misaligned, contributing to a lack of substantive conversation and structures for students to convert their increased motivation to go to college into actionable practices over time. School staff were already stretched thin and, with no added structural support, were unable to interact more meaningfully with students. Conclusion TDP failed to send more students to college because it targeted change at the individual rather than organizational level. Students exhibited change in their motivation to attend college, but this was not met with the support needed to convert this motivation to meaningful action. To achieve their full potential, such programs will have to not only address financial barriers, but also leverage broader structural supports in schools to help channel increased student motivation in more productive directions.


Author(s):  
Stanislav Kreuzer ◽  
Friedrich Born ◽  
Steffen Bernius

Inter-organizational information systems (IOIS) play a critical role in today’s organizations and their relationships with business partners. While large organizations already began utilizing IOIS at the outset, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) have subsequently been reluctant to adopt and use IOIS. As such systems are subject to high network effects, a firm thus has to reach out especially to its SME partners to achieve a critical mass of adopters among them. Prior research agrees that the provision of support in terms of circumstantial information and expertise can influence organizational adoption decisions. However, research in this direction has remained inconclusive. This study conducts a controlled field experiment at the organizational level to investigate the provision of support as a non-coercive persuasion strategy to foster the adoption of IOIS among 203 SME business partners of a large German organization. A cluster analysis is further conducted to identify distinct clusters of IOIS adopters showing significantly different adoption rates that result from informing them as a strategy. The results first offer evidence for the importance of informing SMEs as a viable strategy to foster IOIS adoption among them. Furthermore, the results provide empirical evidence for the presence of particular arrangements of characteristics describing the strategy and structure of analyzed organizations that ultimately interact with the effect of the provision of support as a persuasion strategy.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Bilal Khan ◽  
Muhammad Aslam Noor ◽  
Khalida Inayat Noor ◽  
Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar ◽  
Khadiga Ahmed Ismail ◽  
...  

AbstractIn both theoretical and applied mathematics fields, integral inequalities play a critical role. Due to the behavior of the definition of convexity, both concepts convexity and integral inequality depend on each other. Therefore, the relationship between convexity and symmetry is strong. Whichever one we work on, we introduced the new class of generalized convex function is known as LR-$$\left({h}_{1}, {h}_{2}\right)$$ h 1 , h 2 -convex interval-valued function (LR-$$\left({h}_{1}, {h}_{2}\right)$$ h 1 , h 2 -IVF) by means of pseudo order relation. Then, we established its strong relationship between Hermite–Hadamard inequality (HH-inequality)) and their variant forms. Besides, we derive the Hermite–Hadamard–Fejér inequality (HH–Fejér inequality)) for LR-$$\left({h}_{1}, {h}_{2}\right)$$ h 1 , h 2 -convex interval-valued functions. Several exceptional cases are also obtained which can be viewed as its applications of this new concept of convexity. Useful examples are given that verify the validity of the theory established in this research. This paper’s concepts and techniques may be the starting point for further research in this field.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-248
Author(s):  
Rulli Hendriani ◽  
M. Syamsul Ma'arif ◽  
M. Joko Affandi

This study aims to 1) analyze the implementation of learning organization in PD ABC; 2) analyze the influence of learning organization towards performance improvement of PD ABC; 3) analyze the influence of leadership and organizational culture towards learning organizations, 4) analyze the influence of learning organization, leadership and organizational culture towards performance improvement of PD ABC, and 5) formulate a sustainable learning organization strategy to improve the performance of PD ABC. Methods in this research were Structural Equation Model (SEM) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The results showed that 1) information systems and sharing of knowledge, organizational relationship, strategic leadership, collaboration and team learning need to be improved; 2) leadership has a positive influence and significant effect with learning organization but organizational culture has insignificant effect towards learning organization; 3) learning organization has a positive influence and significant effect towards improving PD ABC performance; learning organization has a positive influence and significant effect towards organizational performance, although leadership and organizational culture have a negative influence but insignificant effect towards performance organization; 4) in order to develop sustainable learning, PD ABC has to provide measurable evaluation and monitoring systems, transparent rewards and punishment, as well as competent people. Keywords: Leadership, learning organization, organizational culture, organizational performance, strategy Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan 1) menganalisis penerapan organisasi pembelajar di PDABC; 2) menganalisis pengaruh organisasi pembelajar terhadap organisasi pembelajar, 3) menganalisis pengaruh kepemimpinan dan budaya organisasi dengan organisasi pembelajar; 4) menganalisis pengaruh organisasi pembelajar, kepemimpinan, dan budaya organisasi terhadap peningkatan kinerja PD ABC; dan 5) memformulasikan strategi organisasi pembelajar berkelanjutan dalam upaya meningkatkan kinerja PD ABC. Metodologi penelitian ini mengambil data secara stratified random sampling ,analisadeskriptif,StructuralEquationModel (SEMLisrel), danAnalyticalHierarchy Process (AHP). Hasil penelitianadalah 1) sistem informasi dan penyebaran pengetahuan, hubungan organisasi,kepemimpinan strategis, kolaborasi dan pembelajaran tim masih perlu ditingkatkan; 2)kepemimpinan berpengaruh signifikan terhadap organisasi pembelajar, budaya organisasiberpengaruh tidak signifikan terhadap organisasi pembelajar; 3) organisasi pembelajarberpengaruh signifikan dengan kinerja organisasi, namun kepemimpinan dan budayaorganisasi secara langsung berpengaruh negatif namun tidak signifikan dengan kinerjaorganisasi 4) strategi meningkatkan kinerja PDABC melalui organisasi pembelajar yaitumenyediakan sistem evaluasi dan monitoring yang terukur serta reward dan punishment yangtransparan. Efektivitas kerja perlu didukung dengan penempatan orang yang tepat sesuai dengan kompetensinya dan melakukan pemberdayaan karyawan.Kata Kunci : Budaya organisasi, kepemimpinan, kinerja organisasi, organisasi pembelajar, strategi


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (26(53)) ◽  
pp. 32-34
Author(s):  
I.R. Sadykova

The article describes the definitions of the concepts of “ability”, “creative ability”, “acting ability”. The analysis of the interpretation of these concepts in psychological, pedagogical and theatrical literature is given. The author gives his own definition of the concepts of “creative ability” and “acting ability”


2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (167) ◽  
pp. 107-139
Author(s):  
Slavica Petrovic

Chaos and complexity theory is a special, functionalist systems approach to dealing with complex, dynamic, nonlinear systems. Through treating organizations as complex, with their environments coevolving, nonlinear systems, complexity theory is aimed at creative research of their erratic nature. When an organization is in a state of bounded instability, at the edge of chaos, order and disorder are intertwined, its behavior is irregular and unpredictable but has some pattern. According to the complexity paradigm organizations have to strive to avoid the equilibrium states of stability and instability. They have instead to strive to remain in a state of bounded instability, at the edge of chaos, where they are able to display their full potential for creativity and innovation.


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