Seminar 5 - Creativity in the Workplace

SEMINAR 5:

SEMINAR NAME	Creativity in the Workplace
DATE	26 November, 2013
VENUE	Aston University
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS	Giles Hirst - Monash University, Victoria, Australia Kamal Birdi - The University of Sheffield
PRESENTERS	Fiona Patterson - City University, London Eric Quintane - Insitute of Management, Switzerland Rolf Van Dick - Goethe-University, Frankfurt Qin Zhou - University of York
DESCRIPTION	Given intentions to grow the sector, we draw on creativity research in order to bring to the fore any implications for MSBs. This session also focuses on building individual capabilities, drawing on the idea that organizational learning and innovation start with a creative idea from an employee (Crossan et al., 1999). Based on Amabile (1996) we suggest that creativity arises not only from ‘domain specific’ skills but also arise from an individual’s orientation to being creative. Debate will explore the question of whether and how organizations might foster creative thinking, by designing learning and training with this goal in mind (Birdi et al., 2009) and uncovering the workplace features that are conducive to working creatively with a view to fostering organizational innovation (Hirst et al., 2009). This session will also present an opportunity to draw together threads across the preceding sessions, by highlighting key themes that inform the emerging multilevel model.