About this Research Topic
Creativity is developed by guiding rather than being taught. For this, environments that allow creativity-rich and diverse experiences should be designed and affect lots of different issues in the organization. To build and sustain an organizational culture dominated by creativity and innovation, organizations must effectively identify and mobilize the creative resources of their members. When organizational members perceive a work environment that restricts or fails to encourage individual creative expression, a gap may exist between the level of individual creative potential and the actual amount of individual creativity practiced within the organization. Leadership development may represent one important key for unlocking this idle creative potential and enhancing overall organizational effectiveness. So, organizations should focus on leadership to develop creativity via all dimensions that affect organizational culture at all levels of the organization. To achieve this, reshaping organizational psychology and culture accordingly can be stated as one of the main missions of organizational leadership.
Recent studies prove that creativity is necessary for both individual and organizational levels, and for achieving these levels together, leadership is crucial for organizations. This special issue aims to collect studies on how to develop creative organizations through leadership. To focus on this special topic, the following sub-topics may be studied in detail.
Based on this main objective, this special issue will also reveal the effects of creative organizational culture, which is one of the most fundamental issues in terms of organizational psychology, and the factors affecting this culture in detail. In addition, this special issue aims to reveal how creative organizational culture is changing organizational behavior and psychology as well as organizational structure in today's rapidly changing world.
Moreover, the creative organizational leaders who will produce this change, their characteristics, and the new skills they need to acquire can be stated as another important purpose of this special issue.
This special issue aims to collect studies on how to develop creative organizations through leadership. For this aim, the issue seeks for the following sub-topics:
1. Emotional drivers of creativity
2. The relationship between creativity, intelligence, and brain function
3. Biological dimensions of creativity
4. Factors affecting creativity
5. The importance of creativity in organization development
6. How can a creative organizational culture be developed?
7. The relationship between creativity, sustainability and entrepreneurship
8. Creative leadership and its role in organization development
9. How can creativity be developed in organizations?
10. The role and functions of creativity in selecting and developing human resources
11. New leadership theories for creative organizations
12. Innovation, inclusion, creativity and leadership
13. Digital technologies for creative leadership
14. Autonomous systems for organizational creativity and development
15. Leadership models and organizational culture and climate'?
Keywords: Creativity, organizational development, leadership, entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence, organizational psychology, management
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