A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa
The Role of Leadership in Employee Creativity - Uncontrolled Creativity, Controlled Creativity or No Creativity
Paper presented in the 61st ICSB World Conference, June 15–18 in New Jersey/New York City, USA.
Tekijät: Satu Aaltonen, Jarna Heinonen
Konferenssin vakiintunut nimi: ICSB World Conference
Kustannuspaikka: New York, USA
Julkaisuvuosi: 2016
Kokoomateoksen nimi: ICSB 2016 WORLD CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
ISBN: 978-0-9819028-9-0
This study focuses on the early stages of front end of innovation (FEI)
– the idea generation – when creativity plays a major role. Our study
illustrates a case of what happens when a web-based co-creation tool is brought
to two Finnish comprehensive schools and the teachers are invited to create new
ideas and develop each other’s ideas on a topic given by the principal. In both
schools the experiment was executed with very little top-down facilitation or
managerial control which made it possible to observe the creativity of the
teachers in a situation, when no specific management or even facilitation of
the co-creation process was provided. Our findings confirm the importance of
both facilitating and controlling leadership in co-creation processes in school
environment especially in situations, when co-creation takes place in a virtual
space.