Creative Management and Development / Edition 3

by Jane Henry

Overview

Creative Management and Development has been updated with newly commissioned and leading edge chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, team innovation, development, and well-being. The textbook retains seminal papers on creativity, perception, style, culture, and sustainable development. The contributors to this textbook represent a broad spectrum of perspectives from among the most distinguished names in the field. They give a clear overview of the topics discussed while explaining their practical implications. This textbook is published as a Course Reader for The Open University Course Creativity, Innovation and Change (B822) but will engage and challenge students interested in creative ways of managing, different approaches to developing creativity in organizations and creative leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412922487
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/21/2006
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jane Henry is a senior lecturer and applied psychologist at the Open University. She is the editor of the Creative Management and Managing Innovation and Change Readers, also published by SAGE and now in their second edition.

Table of Contents

PART A: CREATIVITY
A Systems Perspective on Creativity - M Csikszentmihalyi
How To Kill Creativity - T Amabile
Flourishing in Teams - M West and C Sacramento
Developing Creativity and Innovation
PART B: COGNITION
Beyond Cleverness - G Claxton
How To Be Smart without Thinking
Organizational Knowledge Creation - I Nonaka and H Takeuchi
Beyond sense-making - J Sparrow
Emotion, Imagery and Creativity
PART C: STYLE
Personality - S Hampson
State of the Art
Adaptors and Innovators - M Kirton
What Makes a Leader - D Goleman
PART D: CULTURE
Conditions and Levels of Creativity - G Ekvall
The Citizen Company - C Handy
Why My Former Employees still Work for Me - R Semler
PART E: DEVELOPMENT
Creativity, Development and Wellbeing - J Henry
Empowerment - C Argyris
The Emperor's New Clothes
Informal Networks - D Krackhardt and J R Hanson
The Company behind the Chart
PART F: PERCEPTION
Monocultures of the Mind - V Shiva
Natural Capitalism - A Lovins, H Lovins and P Hawken
Surfing the Edge of Chaos - R Pascale