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Innovation and Human Variables

Innovation and Human Variables. Five Factors Impeding Managerial / Employee Creativity. risk-taking behavior by rewarding both successes and failures. . 1. Expected evaluation - focusing on how your work is going to be evaluated. 2. Surveillance - being watched while you are working.

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Innovation and Human Variables

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  1. Innovation and Human Variables

  2. Five Factors Impeding Managerial / Employee Creativity. risk-taking behavior by rewarding both successes and failures. 1. Expected evaluation - focusing on how your work is going to be evaluated. 2. Surveillance - being watched while you are working. 3. External motivators - emphasizing external, tangible rewards. 4. Competition - facing a win-lose situation with other people. 5. Constrained choice - being given limits on how you can do your work. Teresa Amabile (Harvard Business School, 1997).

  3. Such organizations are likely to have the following seven characteristics:

  4. Organization Culture and Innovation Innovative organizations encourage experimentation and risk-taking behavior by rewarding both successes and failures. Such organizations are highly likely to embrace the following seven characteristics: • Acceptance of ambiguity • Tolerance of the impractical • Low external controls • Tolerance of risk • Tolerance of conflict • Focus on ends rather than on means • Open systems focus.

  5. CREATIVITY IN WORK Research and practice on creativity in business organizations provides important insights to understanding how to stimulate or block individual creativity in organizations. Five factors act to impede managerial or employee creativity: 1. Expected evaluation - focusing on how one’s work is to be evaluated. 2. Surveillance - being watched while you are working. 3. Externalmotivators - emphasizing external and tangible rewards. 4. Competition - facing a win-lose situation with other people. 5. Constrainedchoice - being given limits on how you can do your work.

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