sábado, 2 de octubre de 2010

Different aspects of creativity

There are several issues that affect creativity within a company as can be: The challenge, freedom, resources, characteristics of group work, supervisor encouragement and strong support of the organization.

Ø Challenge: Of all the things that managers can do to stimulate creativity, one of the most effective is to give each person the perfect role for her. Managers can assign each person works to fit their expertise and creative thinking skills and to encourage intrinsic motivation. Autonomy over the process fosters creativity because giving people freedom as to how to approach their work strengthens their intrinsic motivation and sense of ownership of work and results that pertain to them.

Ø Resources: The two main resources that affect creativity are time, appropriate physical space and money.

Ø Characteristics of group work: If you want to create teams that generate creative ideas is a duty to pay due attention to the formation of such teams. To do so, create mutually supportive groups with diverse viewpoints and backgrounds. When teams are composed of people with different intellectual bases and different approaches to work, it means, with different skills and different styles of creative thinking, the ideas often combine to act in very useful and stimulating.

Ø Stimulation of supervisor: Employees may feel that their work is interesting or exciting without the need for anyone to remind you, but only for a limited period. However, to maintain that passion, most employees need to feel that their work matters to the company.
  
Ø Organizational Support: The encouragement received from the supervisors really fosters creativity, pear, it increases greatly when the organization as a whole supports it. Such support is the task of leading an organization that must implement appropriate systems and procedures and emphasize values that make it clear that creative efforts are a priority.

Lessons from the results obtained by highly competitive firms is that fostering creativity is something that is in the hands of managers. Creativity requires management to radically change their way of forming working groups and interact with them. This implies a change in organizational culture, which generates significant rewards. The risks of not doing so may be even greater. When you kill creativity, an organization loses a powerful competitive weapon: the new ideas while losing energy and commitment of its people.  

1 comentario:

  1. In my view all the items presented in the article are important because it takes different aspects that a company must offer and provide their workers so that they can give different and new ideas that are useful for the company but at the same time employees need to feel and know that your work is very helpful for the company and contributing to growth in many of the same. With regard to creativity and group work caracteristics entirely true, because in order to make the team work is important to know accommodate people according to the skills and mindset of everyone to be that way can complement and be able to generate a good idea to help the company move forward.

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