I found this very interesting because I know just how much tme is spent making staff conform and stick to the rules, protocols, policies? The "party line" is now more valuable to most library services than any wild card sparks of genius and creativity? More time is spent ensuring common practices and approaches are followed and I would guess very little in nurturing creativity.
This article highlights the critical interrelationships that exist between intrinsic motivation, leadership skill, and the individual employee, job, team and organizational contexts on employee creativity in the library.
While I applaud the sentiments I think we are very wrong if we assume that in general most library managers understand and encourage employee creativity (EC) in their libraries, the leadership skills required to accomplish increased EC are far from clear-cut and have not been addressed, to any great degree, in library literature.
Am I wrong again?
http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/602F3BA8-EA54-4D77-A239-3A37DF5A3416/0/LibManagementvol29no32008Facilitatingemployees.pdf
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Unfortunately, it seems the link is not working. "file not found". It is probably only available to registered members of CILIP.
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