An artful workplace of the future: The role of art‐based interventions in fostering levers for creativity amongst a diverse workforce

IF 3.4 3区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

European Management Review Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI:10.1111/emre.12680

Anne‐Sophie Bacouël, Amanda Shantz, Sabine Jentjens, Clara Goudal

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Abstract

The relationship between diversity and creativity is equivocal, and so attention has turned to traditional factors that might foster this relationship. Yet the creativity needed for today's challenges requires a radically different set of skills and mindsets than what has driven business in the past. The workforce of the future requires interventions that ignite diverse employees' emotion, intuition and imagination. Art‐based interventions may be one such method, and furthermore, they may be particularly suitable to maximise the conditions needed to foster diversity for creativity, or what we call and examine, ‘levers for creativity’. We look deeply into an organisation that promotes the arts to ask: How do art‐based interventions support workplace diversity to increase levers for employee creativity? Analysis of interview data (n = 21) from one case study finds that art‐based interventions: (1) level the playing field; (2) encourage courage; (3) broaden perspective taking; (4) offer moments to breathe; and (5) cultivate a sense of we‐ness.

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未来的艺术化工作场所：以艺术为基础的干预措施在培养多元化员工创造力方面的作用

多样性与创造力之间的关系并不明确，因此人们将注意力转向了可能促进这种关系的传统因素。然而，应对当今挑战所需的创造力需要一套与过去推动企业发展完全不同的技能和思维方式。未来的劳动力需要能够点燃不同员工的情感、直觉和想象力的干预措施。以艺术为基础的干预措施可能就是这样一种方法，此外，它们可能特别适合最大限度地创造促进创造力多样性所需的条件，也就是我们所说和研究的 "创造力杠杆"。我们深入研究了一家推广艺术的机构，并提出以下问题：基于艺术的干预措施如何支持工作场所的多样性，从而增加员工创造力的杠杆？对一个案例研究的访谈数据（n = 21）进行分析后发现，基于艺术的干预措施：（1）公平竞争；（2）鼓励勇气；（3）拓宽视野；（4）提供喘息的机会；以及（5）培养 "我们 "的意识。

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European Management Review MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： The European Management Review is an international journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of management in private and public sector organizations through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis. The European Management Review provides an international forum for dialogue between researchers, thereby improving the understanding of the nature of management in different settings and promoting the transfer of research results to management practice. Although one of the European Management Review"s aims is to foster the general advancement of management scholarship among European scholars and/or those academics interested in European management issues.