Creative management / edited by Jane Henry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henry, Jane.

Open University. Business School.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Creative ability in business.

Physical Description:

xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Milton Keynes, U.K. : Open University, Business School ; London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2001.

Summary:

Following on from its highly successful predecessor, the new edition of Creative Management further explores the roots of creative perception at work, in the context of rapidly changing technologies and new opportunities for knowledge management. The readings present distinguished international contributors who collectively represent a new approach to management. Jane Henry brings these eminent authors together to introduce to the reader essential works on cognition, creativity, style, learning, development and sustainability - all written at an accessible and engaging level. Creative Management 2nd Edition has a distinctly international flavour. Whilst giving a clear conceptual overview and perspective for the topics discussed, it also makes clear their practical implications. It will be widely adopted on management courses, and is particularly relevant to courses on creative management, innovation, knowledge management, organizational behaviour, and organizational and business psychology courses.

Contents:

Part 1 Perception

Section A Creativity 3

1 How to kill creativity / Teresa Amabile 4

2 A systems perspective on creativity / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 11

Section B Cognition 27

3 The innovative mind: becoming smarter by thinking less / Guy Claxton 29

4 Creativity and problem solving / Geir Kaufmann 44

5 Organizational knowledge creation / Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi 64

Section C Perception 83

6 Ten ideas designed to rile everyone who cares about management / Henry Mintzberg 97

7 The theory behind the practice / Gareth Morgan 105

8 Metaphor and the evolution of the living organization / Gerrit Broekstra 121

Part 2 Style

Section D Emotion 125

9 What makes a leader / Daniel Goleman 127

10 Psychodynamics, psychoanalysis and organizations / Yiannis Gabriel 140

Section E Style 153

11 State of the art: personality / Sarah Hampson 154

12 The Big Five versus the Myers-Briggs / Rowan Bayne 162

13 Adaptors and innovators: why new initiatives get blocked / Michael J. Kirton 169

Section F Learning 181

14 Learning and change through action research / Peter Reason 182

15 Empowerment: the emperor's new clothes / Chris Argyris 195

16 Informal networks: the company behind the chart / David Krackhardt, Jeffrey R. Hanson 202

Part 3 Development

Section G Culture 211

17 Why my former employees still work for me / Ricardo Semler 213

18 Technology, networks and social capital / Francis Fukuyama 225

Section H Responsibility 239

19 The citizen company / Charles Handy 240

20 From spare change to real change / Rosabeth Moss Kanter 252

Section I Sustainability 265

21 A road map for natural capitalism / Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Paul Hawken 266

22 Monocultures of the mind / Vandana Shiva 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761966110

OCLC:

47947917