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Creative Management Jane Henry

Creative Management By Jane Henry

Creative Management by Jane Henry


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Summary

Following on from its highly successful predecessor, the new edition of Creative Management further explores the roots of creative perception and judgement at work, in the context of rapidly changing technologies and new opportunities for knowledge management. The readings presents distinguished int

Creative Management Summary

Creative Management by Jane Henry

Praise for the First Edition:

`The book is an accessible source of key writings and it will be of interest to practising managers and students of organizational behaviour' - The Occupational Psychologist

`Fascinating reading and very relevant to managing change and the needs of the decades ahead' - Long Range Planning

`Excellent collection of articles examining the nature of creativity and how it relates to various management issues from a wide variety of perspectives. Especially noteworthy are the contributions from Gareth Morgan (author of Images of Organization), Michael McCaskey and Peter Drucker. Recommended for anyone with an interest in problem solving, organizational development and change' - Changes Bookshop News

`The major strength of this collection is the variety of perspectives it brings out in one's understanding of creative processes. The selection of articles and their sequencing makes reading through the book an enjoyable experience.... one can easily recommend this book to students, scholars and senior executives.... practitioners of creativity (eg value-engineers, research scientists, media executives, etc), may find it useful to gain insight into the nature of the processes which they practice' - Management and Labour Studies

`An excellent tour of this fascinating world' - Headlines

This latest edition of Creative Management has been completely rewritten to further explore the roots of creative perception and judgement at work.

Jane Henry has brought together key readings from distinguished international contributors which consider: creativity; organizational psychodynamics; social capital and knowledge management.

The contributors to this textbook are some of the most distinguished names in the field and give a clear overview of the topics discussed whilst explaining their practical implications.

Published as a Course Reader for The Open University Course Creativity, Innovation and Change (B822).

Creative Management Reviews

Praise for the First Edition:

`The book is an accessible source of key writings and it will be of interest to practising managers and students of organizational behaviour' - The Occupational Psychologist

`Fascinating reading and very relevant to managing change and the needs of the decades ahead' - Long Range Planning

`Excellent collection of articles examining the nature of creativity and how it relates to various management issues from a wide variety of perspectives. Especially noteworthy are the contributions from Gareth Morgan (author of Images of Organization), Michael McCaskey and Peter Drucker. Recommended for anyone with an interest in problem solving, organizational development and change' - Changes Bookshop News

`The major strength of this collection is the variety of perspectives it brings out in one's understanding of creative processes. The selection of articles and their sequencing makes reading through the book an enjoyable experience.... one can easily recommend this book to students, scholars and senior executives.... practitioners of creativity (eg value-engineers, research scientists, media executives, etc), may find it useful to gain insight into the nature of the processes which they practice' - Management and Labour Studies

`An excellent tour of this fascinating world' - Headlines

About Jane Henry

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 ONE: PERCEPTION CREATIVITY How to Kill Creativity - Teresa Amabile A Systems Perspective on Creativity - Milhaly Csikszentmihalyi COGNITION The Innovative Mind - Guy Claxton Becoming Smarter by Thinking Less Creativity and Problem Solving - Geir Kauffman Organizational Knowledge Creation - Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi PERCEPTION Ten Ideas Designed to Rile Everyone Who Cares About Management - Henry Mintzberg The Theory Behind the Practice - Gareth Morgan Metaphor and the Evolution of the Living Organization - Gerrit Boekstra PART TWO: STYLE EMOTION What Makes a Leader - Daniel Coleman Psychodynamics, Psychoanalysis and Organizations - Yiannis Gabriel STYLE State of the Art - Sarah Hampson Personality The Big Five and Myers-Briggs - Rowan Bayne Adaptors and Innovators - Michael J Kirton Why New Initiatives Get Blocked LEARNING Learning and Change Through Action Research - Peter Reason Empowerment - Chris Argyris The Emperor's New Clothes Informal Networks - David Krackhardt and Jeffrey R Hanson The Company Behind the Chart PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT CULTURE Why My Former Employees Still Work for Me - Richard Semler Technology, Networks and Social Capital - Francis Fukuyama RESPONSIBILITY The Citizen Company - Charles Handy From Spare Change to Real Change - Rosabeth Moss Kanter SUSTAINABILITY A Road Map For Natural Capitalism - A B Lovins, L Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken Monocultures of the Mind - Vandana Shiva

Additional information

GOR001502277
9780761966111
0761966110
Creative Management by Jane Henry
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20010403
328
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