Once a company has chosen to become innovative, where do they start? How do they manage their staff towards innovative ideas? Google is a brilliant example of how they use their resources, to motivate and enable a wider creative vision in their employees, take a few minutes to watch the video below and reflect on what it would be like to have your working environment like theirs!
I have found a few quotes which reinforce the importance of the working environment enabling higher levels of creativity and promoting innovation. A supportive group environment increases team member's tendency to take risks and share ideas, resulting in higher team creativity and innovation.' Miron-Spektor et al. (2011:742) further explained that an inflexible environment in which risk taking is not allowed and team members are punished for making mistakes impedes innovation and learning.'
My findings do make me wonder why other companies have not adapted to this innovative motivational method, reflecting on what i have learnt it could be anything from financial circumstances, to company culture, I am not saying every company would be successful, but i am sure there are many organisations out there that would massively benefit from such an approach.
So by now we are aware of the importance of innovating and how it affects businesses, I would like to hopefully hear your views on the importance of the working environment and how it affects innovation, so leave your comments below.
The google working environment does look like it would enable people to be more creative and free with there idea's google are obviously doing something right as they were crowned worlds most attractive employer in the recent artice on news.Cnet.com
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I do sometimes wonder has this change of approach affected the productivity in a totally possitive way. Specifically in area's of the business where the tasks being completed are not required to be as creative?
The article on Wikipedia about "Open plan" working environments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_plan does highlight some of the benefits of open plan working for team building, but for tasks where indivuduals require solitude in order to complete these tasks it can be preferred.
In any business its about getting the right mix of open and closed working area's to suite the tasks that are at hand.