Building the creative worker: leadership, agency, and creative self-image

dc.contributor.author	Farmer, Steven M.
dc.date.accessioned	2008-03-13T15:18:16Z
dc.date.available	2008-03-13T15:18:16Z
dc.date.copyright	2008
dc.date.issued	2008-03-25
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1235
dc.identifier.uri	http://libmedia.wichita.edu/stevefarmer.wmv
dc.description.abstract	Although hundreds of volumes have been written about leadership, very little of that has focused on how to lead others to being creative. There are many reasons for this, but a particularly important one is the belief that creativity is innate – a personality characteristics – and cannot be affected by outside forces like leaders. In this talk Dr. Farmer presents findings from a decade of research focused on employee creativity in the workplace. Leaders can build and augment the propensity and ability of workers to be creative, but ultimately, creativity in the workplace must come from each worker’s decision to engage – to try to be creative and to persevere through the difficulties and challenges that are an inherent part of creative work. It is how leadership affects that self-image, and builds individuals’ abilities and desires to choose to act creatively, that is the topic of this presentation.	en
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Wichita State University Libraries	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Explore faculty research at WSU	en
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dc.subject	Creativity	en
dc.subject	Leadership	en
dc.subject	Self-image	en
dc.title	Building the creative worker: leadership, agency, and creative self-image	en
dc.type	Presentation	en
dc.type	Video	en