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Leading for a Creative Employee Culture
Presenter:
Carl P Maertz, Ph.D.
Creativity and innovation are considered key factors for achieving a sustained organizational competitive advantage in today’s economy. Many OD practitioners are challenged with designing, implementing, and evaluating methodologies that enable organizations to adapt, create, and innovate.
We know individual employees play a critical role in organizational innovation. For this reason, there is a need to create a climate that fosters idea generation and creative thinking. Today more than ever, cultivating creativity from those employees who are not necessarily expected or required to be creative is becoming an increasingly clear imperative.
This session will enable you to:
About the Facilitator
Carl P. Maertz, Jr. is the Mary Louise Murray Endowed Professor of Management in the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University. He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University’s Krannert Graduate School of Management. His research on turnover, work-family conflict, cross-cultural adjustment, selection reactions, and workplace creativity has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Psychological Bulletin, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Relations and many others. He has also consulted with many organizations in various areas of management for over 25 years, specializing in the improvement of employee work performance in all its forms, and improving retention management.
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