Fostering creativity in healthcare: Healthcare workers as agents of creativity

March Leung To; Neal M. Ashkanasy; Cynthia Fisher

doi:10.4337/9781849809856.00014

Fostering creativity in healthcare: Healthcare workers as agents of creativity

March Leung To, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Cynthia Fisher

Bond Business School

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Consistent with the rapidly changing nature of modern health care, both in the UK (Greener, 2009) and the US (Wallace and Schneller, 2008), there is an emerging imperative for creative thinking in health care management. In this respect, West and Richter (2008) discuss how managers of today’s organisations need to foster a climate of creativity, where positive outcomes for patients are a function of innovative thinking, instead of a reliance on traditional approaches that may not always be best for patient outcomes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The innovation imperative in health care organisations: Critical Role of Human Resource Management in the Cost, Quality and Productivity Equation
Editors	P. Spurgeon, R. J. Burke, C. L. Cooper
Place of Publication	Cheltenham
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages	79-97
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	9781849809849
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849809856.00014
Publication status	Published - 2012

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To, M. L., Ashkanasy, N. M., & Fisher, C. (2012). Fostering creativity in healthcare: Healthcare workers as agents of creativity. In P. Spurgeon, R. J. Burke, & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), The innovation imperative in health care organisations: Critical Role of Human Resource Management in the Cost, Quality and Productivity Equation (pp. 79-97). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849809856.00014

To, March Leung ; Ashkanasy, Neal M. ; Fisher, Cynthia. / Fostering creativity in healthcare: Healthcare workers as agents of creativity. The innovation imperative in health care organisations: Critical Role of Human Resource Management in the Cost, Quality and Productivity Equation. editor / P. Spurgeon ; R. J. Burke ; C. L. Cooper. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012. pp. 79-97

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To ML, Ashkanasy NM, Fisher C. Fostering creativity in healthcare: Healthcare workers as agents of creativity. In Spurgeon P, Burke RJ, Cooper CL, editors, The innovation imperative in health care organisations: Critical Role of Human Resource Management in the Cost, Quality and Productivity Equation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2012. p. 79-97 doi: 10.4337/9781849809856.00014

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