Capitalizing on creativity at work: fostering the implementation of creative ideas in organizations

Table of Contents:

1. Capitalizing on creativity: on enablers and barriers

PART I WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT AS INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEES?
2. Job design at the crossroads: from ‘creative’ jobs to ‘innovative’ jobs

3. The flow of creativity for idea implementation

4. Idea implementation and cultural intelligence

PART II WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT AS TEAMS?
5. This idea rocks! Idea championing in teams

6. Should our heart rule our head? Team innovation through intuition and rationality

7. Fuelling, curating, connecting and fascinating: why and how creativity provokes curiosity

8. Social-contextual forces and innovative work: a motivational climate perspective

PART III WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT AS LEADERS?
9. Supportive supervision: a crucial factor for unlocking the potential of highly creative ideas perspective

10. Economic and social leader–member exchange, and creativity at work

11. Everything in moderation: authentic leadership, leader–member exchange and idea implementation

PART IV WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT AS ORGANIZATIONS?
12. Creativity that works: implementing discovery
13. Designing and implementing innovative business models

14. Idea implementation as a relational phenomenon: a social network perspective

15. Proactive employee behaviours and idea implementation: three automotive industry cases
16. Design thinking workshops: a way to facilitate sense making and idea development across organizational levels


17. Business model evolution and the growth of innovative new ventures: evidence from the Italian system
18. Beyond creativity: implementing innovative ideas through human resource management
19. Organizing for co-creation and multi-polar learning communities
20. Making innovations work locally: the role of creativity
21. From breakthroughs in knowledge to integration in medical practices

PART V WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT AS INNOVATION POLICY-MAKERS?
22. Adjusting national innovation policies to support open and networked innovation systems
23. Government ideation systems

24. Creation of a social media social venture
PART VI WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
25. Succeeding with capitalizing on creativity: an integrative framework
Index

How does one implement highly creative ideas in the workplace? Though creativity fuels modern businesses and organizations, capitalizing on creativity is still a relatively unchartered territory. The crux of this issue is explored as contributors present and analyze remedies for capitalizing on highly creative ideas.

Editors Miha Škerlavaj, Matej Cerne, Anders Dysvik and Arne Carlsen have gathered a large network of contributors across four continents to craft this relevant, evidence-based and holistic text. Multiple levels, methods, approaches and perspectives are all considered while focusing on a single research question. Chapters feature a combination of research-based materials, stories and short cases to show what can be done to implement highly creative ideas in the workplace.

This extremely relevant subject will be of interest to a large number of organizations worldwide that are looking to tap into the potential of highly creative and possibly useful ideas to build their competitive advantage. Specifically, management consultants in Human Resource Management, innovation, creativity, coaching, and/or leadership will find this book useful. It can also be used in Innovation Management MSc and MBA courses, executive education courses, as well as for PhD researchers and innovation management scholars.

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