MGMT 535 - Module 8 - Innovation - Madeline Campbell

Leadbeater’s talk brought up some interesting points that through innovations and with time have been proven true. I know within my organization I can spur creativity within my department and I do think if superiors heard and potentially implemented workers ideas for travel, student information and presentations that we could benefits from their creativity. Since the workers are the ones out “in the field” I do believe that one person’s creativity could eliminate time-consuming procedures and instill new procedures.

Since a small aspect of our job is very autonomous, we often do our own “procedures” within our job. Due to this we have to be creative and do our work to be best of our abilities and with our own creativity. If we communicated openly and met often with our colleagues, I think we could all learn a great deal from each other. A way we could communicate that creativity is not just for “special people” would simply be to encourage employees to share their ideas and thoughts within the workforce. If superiors are not communicating with their employees and learning from them, then creativity is not being fed. Another aspect of finding and instilling creativity would be to motivate your team members to try new procedures and new ideas within the workplace and then to report back with their experience.

Within my personal workplace, I can encourage creativity within new hires when I am helping them with their traveling planning and recruiting. There are countless ways to go about recruitment and travel and not one specific way is the “right way”. I can inform them of how I book my travel and set up my meetings and how I recruit new students. I can also encourage them to take these steps however they find necessary and then report back to me if it was beneficial or not.

Kohler’s article regarding communication, social capital and workplace health management relates to creativity in a number of ways. The article pulls a study measuring the innovative climate in German banks as it relates to workplace health management. Since Kohler defines innovation as, “the adoption of a new idea or behavior by an organization” (2010, p. 561) this is directly relating to creativity. Given that innovation can focus on the entire organization or solely an individual, this can bring creativity into the workplace. Kohler states that, “To create new solutions in organizations through open communication processes, it is vital to give each member of the organization the possibility to voice any objections and to openly and freely express their personal opinion” ( 2010, p. 562).

References

Köhler, T., Janßen, C., Plath, S., Reese, J. P., Lay, J., Steinhausen, S., . . . Pfaff, H. (2010). Communication, social capital and workplace health management as determinants of the innovative climate in german banks. International Journal of Public Health, 55(6), 561-570. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.libproxy.db.erau.edu

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