Cultivating employee creativity through strategic internal communication: The role of leadership,symmetry, and feedback seeking behaviors

Using a survey of 405 full-time employees, this study examined how organizations’ internal communication influenced by leadership communication at the supervisory- and senior-levels impacts employee creativity and how employees’ feedback-seeking behaviors mediate these relationships. The results suggest that leadership communication at the supervisory and senior levels positively influence symmetrical internal communication system. The analysis also shows that symmetrical internal communication and leadership communication cause employees to seek more feedback from different interpersonal sources including supervisors, coworkers, and peers in other departments, which in turn enhances creativity. This paper concludes with a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of these findings for public relations and internal communication.     

海报设计原理显性教学对图像创新能力发展的影响:一项实证研究*

当前，我国高等教育日益强调创新能力培养。本文以教学实践为基础,探讨了在英语专业教学中通过海报设计 原理显性教学对学生图像创新能力发展的影响。通过分析学生作业和结构访谈数据，发现海报设计原理显性教学对图像创新 能力培养的效果呈现出比较明显的不均衡性，即部分学生展现出了一定的创新能力，而其他则无明显改观。最后，分析了出现 上述结果的影响因素。     

企业人力资源管理实践对跨功能团队创造力的跨层影响

在借助团队认知理论构建从企业人力资源管理实践、团队内隐协调到团队创造力研究模型的基础上,通过25家企业的95个跨功能团队的调研数据,利用多层线性技术进行研究分析.研究结果发现,参与导向型人力资源管理实践及其与关系导向型人力资源管理实践的交互作用均能有效提升跨功能团队创造力,且团队内隐协调对上述两者与团队创造力之间的关系分别起部分中介和完全中介作用,而关系导向型人力资源管理实践则与团队创造力和团队内隐协调不存在显著的相关关系.研究结论为跨功能团队在企业无边界化管理中的发展与应用提供了重要启示.     

Organizational closedown and the process of deconstruction and creativity

This paper outlines an analysis of how the deconstruction of organizational, management control and performance management structures affects performances and how workers make sense of enhanced efforts and practices of creativity, in a situation when facing a certainty of job loss as of the closedown of the organization. In this paper, we have shown that the deconstruction of structures generate positive performance outcomes, and that such relation is being mediated by workers identity. We have also shown that identity work under a process of organizational closedown generate certain creativity. By doing so, this paper contributes to the literature on creativity and deconstruction by developing an emergent model where workers identity mediates formal structures in relation to performance. This paper contributes to the literature on closedowns by extending its analytical and theoretical domains, proving alternative, yet complementary and mediating explanations to the causes of drivers to enhanced performances during the process of closedown.     

幼儿创意绘画教学的常见问题与实施要领

创意绘画是当前比较新颖和盛行的幼儿绘画形式，主要有手指画、画架画、创意涂鸦、喷墨画、粘贴画、三维立体创作等等。创意绘画在开发幼儿动手动脑能力、审美情趣，提高创造力等方面发挥着重要的作用。当前的幼儿创意绘画教学普遍存在着偏向结果且忽视幼儿主体体验、模式固化、成人介入过多等问题。因而，需要教育工作者以及家长正视幼儿创意绘画教学中存在的上述常见问题，正确认识幼儿创意绘画的价值，正确理解幼儿创意绘画的意义，鼓励幼儿在已有简单生活经验的基础之上大胆创作和表达，减少成人的介入与干扰。     

Creativity in social work education and practice: reflections on a Survivor Arts Project

This article, written by survivor artists, practitioners and academics (each moving between these different identities and associated voices), will explore a creative arts approach to social work (SW) education within the context of service user and carer involvement. In addition to building upon a developing literature base, the writers will draw upon their own experience and the experience of other service user and carer contributors as well as student and practitioner feedback. In doing so, this article will seek to analyse some of the ways the creative arts can be harnessed as a tool for a more radical, creative and critical approach to professional education and how this in turn can help develop more empathic, critically self-reflective and creative (in the broadest sense of the word) practitioners. In critiquing the more traditional service user and carer involvement approach, this article will attempt to show how the more innovative approach of the Survivor Arts Project can move us beyond an arguably more limiting ‘expertise through experience’ model. In outlining an emancipatory model which recognises the relevance of lived experience and places this within the context of survivor movements, focusing also on the skills and insights survivors bring to SW education, this article will detail the ways we can work towards developing a more vibrant and dynamic learning environment which values our life stories and recognises our strengths as well as the many different and overlapping identities which place us along a continuum that connects our lives and informs our practice.     

Documentarians,fair use,and free expression: changes in copyright attitudes and actions with access to best practices

This study, based on a survey of 489 documentary filmmakers, is a case study in copyright policy in and through practice. It assesses the changes in documentary production practice around clearance of copyrighted material since the creation of the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in fair use in 2005. Fair use, an exotic and occasional feature of documentary film in 2004, has become well known and commonly employed. Creative options for filmmakers concerning the use of third-party material have dramatically improved with changes in norms after the issuing of the Statement. Attitudes about fair use are strongly associated with free expression and creative opportunity, and vary with experience. Where filmmakers have changed work because of copyright concerns, they themselves rather than any gatekeeper have made the decision to do so. Where change is associated with fair use, risk is a common concern. Newer filmmakers are more likely to support the use of copyrighted material to make new work, but less likely to know about fair use, and also more likely to have experienced takedowns online. Both education about and experience with fair use appear to have an effect on practice. Filmmakers continue to lack reliable information on the actual risk landscape, and about fair use on digital platforms.     

Can art-based reflection help us cope with organisational change in the public sector?

Never before have public sector jobs been so threatened. Fear and anxiety have shifted their focus, from performance to survival. With reference to immediately contemporary works on the NHS in particular, such as Mandelstam (2011) and Leys and Player (2011), the paper establishes the factual validity of the crisis.

The authors conducted a series of workshops for public sector staff to enable them to explore their reactions to the current situation.

It is possible to identify increasing levels of denial and other forms of resistance to change similar to those first identified by Menzies' (1959). Drawing on the work of Bion (cited Obholzer & Roberts, 1994) the paper considers the dangers of a retreat to the paranoid schizoid position, and identifies a theoretical clue in Halton (2004) for turning the trauma of change into a creative opportunity.

Art has access to emotional, spiritual and creative facets of the human mind that science cannot explore. Klein's (1975) consideration of the infantile and regressive aspect of art is acknowledged. The paper then considers what is revealed by a study of specific works of art which were presented in the workshops; including paintings by Bosch, Rousseau, Breughel and Goya. The work of Zagier-Roberts (1998) and Winnicott (1971) is called upon to endorse the usefulness of such a playful collage of responses.

Art can be used to help people move through Kubler Ross' stages of bereavement (1997); not to acceptance but out of the paranoid schizoid position into the depressive position (Klein 1975). Revisiting the work of Halton (2004) and the concept of evolutionary creativity, a move on from the depressive position can begin. Collective validation can be affirmed through a rebooting of the essential public sector values while a radical turning away from organisational priorities, to face the service user, provides a more far reaching optimism than any envisaged by an essentially limited demand for modernisation.

In conclusion the paper considers the recent contributions of Dienst (2011) and Dumenil and Levy (2011) to advocate tactical resistance to the denigration of the public sphere.     

授权型领导对员工创造力的作用机理研究

以企业员工为研究对象,采用问卷调查法,收集219份有效问卷,探讨授权型领导对员工创造力影响的作用机制。假设:授权型领导通过心理授权的中介作用影响员工的创造力;员工获得心理授权又通过内在动机的中介作用影响其创造力。研究结果表明:授权型领导通过正向影响心理授权进而提高员工创造力;心理授权在授权型领导与员工创造力之间起到完全中介作用;内在动机在心理授权与员工创造力之间起到部分中介作用。     

中国素质教育的着眼点与实质

人的本质性特点就是无论在哪方面都可以具有无限创造性,历经漫长岁月创造了璀璨的人类文明。创造的价值在于其独特性,这种独特性根植于人的个性化心智结构。大众的个性张扬构成了富有创造性活力的多元化、多样化社会。创造出合适的教育模式和能让孩子们身心健康自由成长的环境,并将其无限可能的潜质转变为现实的创造性能力,这就是我们素质教育的着眼点与实质。