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This Tavistock Occasional Paper examines the paradox that creativity is highly valued and needed, yet our institutions - especially work organisations - seem designed not to promote creativity, but to stifle it.
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About the Author
Eric Miller was a member of the staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations from 1958 until his death in April 2002. After war service in India and Burma, he read anthropology at Cambridge, then completed fieldwork in India and Thailand before spending five years as consultant to two companies in the textile industry in India and the United States.
At the Institute his primary interests were organisational change and development, and the relatedness of the individual to the group and the organisation. His research and consultancy took him into a wide variety of organisations and sectors in Britain and overseas. Arising from his work, Eric wrote many papers and books. His books include Systems of Organization (with A.K. Rice), A Life Apart (with G.V.Gwynne) A Life Together (with Gwynne & Dartington) and Task and Organisation.
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- PublisherImprint unknown
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0901882224
- ISBN 13 9780901882226
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages18
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Work and Creativity : occasional paper No.6. The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations;
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Work and Creativity. Thir Occasional Paper, 6.
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Paperback. Condition: Gut. 18 p. Lediglich leichte Gebrauchsspuren am Einband, sonst ein sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / only slight signs of usage on the cover, otherwise a clean copy without markings. - WHAT PEOPLE MEAN BY 'WORK' AND 'CREATIVITY' The English language, like others, is rich in abstract nouns: our everyday conversation is littered with them. Unlike concrete nouns, such as 'table', 'chair', 'door', 'window', they have no obvious physical referents that we can point to. Yet most of the time when we use them we take it for granted that we shall be understood with just as much precision. We all know what we mean by (democracy, freedom, intelligence, work etc.), don't we? We fail to recognize that our ilsage relies not only on a socially determined classification of the world - which, after all, is equally applicable to concrete nouns, in that it defines a chair as a fourlegged something to sit on - but also an assumption of shared experience and shared feelings and values associated with that experience. If we want to question such assumptions, a good starting point is to ask ourselves what our associations are to, say, 'work' and 'creativity'; what synonyms and meanings do I assign? We can then check this out by putting the same questions to others. These lists are a product of three such exercises. [.] Imposing my own classification, I see the 'work' items as roughly grouped into three sets. The first ten describe activity per se and the experience of it. Then there are a couple of ambiguous words - 'occupation' and 'job' which lead into a second set that has mainly to do with relationships involved. Finally, there are those concerned with outputs. These last few show an overlap with creativity. Finding no such obvious classification for the second column, I have resorted to alphabetical order. We can take clarification of meanings one step further by asking what the antonyms or opposites are. I myself, and apparently many others, think of two quite divergent antonyms to 'work'. One is 'play', which is a well- established opposite: for example, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". The other is 'unemployment'. Secondary opposites that come most immediately to mind are 'idleness' and 'leisure'. So work is 'non-play' (excerpt from the introduction). ISBN 9780901882226 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 501. Seller Inventory # 1212598
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