Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Managing employee creativity (17.IMDR11)

Native organizations units: Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Industrial Engineering / Engineering Management (Year: 2, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Industrijski marketing, preduzetništvo i inovacije Ljudski resursi i komunikacije
ECTS	10

Goal of the course is to master the basic and advanced skills necessary to analyze, measure and manage the creative potentials of employees in organizations. The course aims to familiarize students with the rules and principles, which are used to optimally manage creative power of all employees in the organization in order to maximize their potential. On the basis of this course competences for research and active management of the creative forces of the whole working organization will be aquired.

On the basis of goals achieved in the course, it is expected that students will be able to independently design and conduct research processes aimed at obtaining information on the level of creative potential of employees in the organization, about the factors that affect them, as well as their degree of utilization. The outcome of the course will be the students' competences for proper and optimal use of the creative potential of the employees in organizations through a systematic approach, with emphasis on mastering systems of idea management and creative stimulation.

Thematic sections: Factors and scientific approaches to the concept of creativity, creative potential measurement, researching stimulating and hindering factors of creativity, managing the creative force of employees,idea management systems, open innovation.

Teaching is done interactively, with the active participation of students in the teaching process and with organizing empyrical research of the observed phenomena.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
von Stamm B.	Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity	2003	John Wiley & Sons Ltd	English
DeGraff J., Lawrence K.A.	Creativity at Work - Developing the Right Practices to Make Innovation Happen	2002	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.	English