Article ID: | iaor2007589 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 470 |
End Page Number: | 483 |
Publication Date: | May 2006 |
Journal: | Organization Science |
Authors: | Elsbach Kimberly D., Hargadon Andrew B. |
Keywords: | creativity |
We propose that organizations use a new framework of workday design to enhance the creativity of today's chronically overworked professionals. Although insights from creativity research have been integrated into models of work design to increase the stimulants of creativity (e.g., intrinsic motivation), this has not led to work design models that have effectively reduced the obstacles to creativity (e.g., workload pressures). As a consequence, creative output among professionals in high-workload contexts remains disappointing. In response, we offer a framework of work design that focuses on the design of entire workdays rather than the typical focus on designing either specific tasks or very broad job descriptions (e.g., as the job characteristics model of Hackman