The management of creative design professionals

dc.contributor.advisorLew, Charlene
dc.contributor.emailichelp@gibs.co.zaen_US
dc.contributor.postgraduateMason, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-15T09:25:46Z
dc.date.available2014-07-15T09:25:46Z
dc.date.created2014-04-30
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.descriptionDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.en_US
dc.description.abstractOne of the challenges for a manager in a creative profession is how to turn the creative energy of the designers into profitable energy for the company. Creativity and productivity are frequently seen as opposing forces, therefore trying to simultaneously nurture both the innovation and the efficiency of a creative design team can become a frustrating balancing act for managers of these organisations. This research demonstrates how the performance of creative people can be aligned to the commercial goals of a design organisation, and that the perceived clash between creativity and productivity is a result of an incompatibility between the creative style of the company and the management techniques being employed. Executives and employees from fifteen organisations of varying levels of success and creativity, across a spectrum of creative design professions, were interviewed regarding how they accommodate a range of productivity and creativity indicators. In analysing the findings qualitatively, it was discovered that rather than one fixed answer to this question, a range of management techniques are applied and many different creative styles are employed. The research findings show that identifying the creative style of the organisation and the appropriate management technique to match is critical in overcoming this perceived paradox. It provides a diagnostic tool for the creative design organisation to enable them to establish where they are on a spectrum of creativity, or decide where they want to be strategically, and then either adapt or adopt an appropriate management technique to complement rather than constrain their creative style.en_US
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden_US
dc.description.degreeMBA
dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en
dc.identifier.citationMason, N 2013, The management of creative design professionals, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40753> en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/40753
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en_US
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subjectCreativityen_US
dc.subjectProductivityen_US
dc.subjectDesign professionalsen_US
dc.subjectManagement techniquesen_US
dc.titleThe management of creative design professionalsen_US
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_US

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