Everyday Creativity and Organizational Change: How Small Creative Acts Drive Innovation

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of everyday creativity, defined as ordinary yet significant creative actions performed by individuals in the course of their everyday work. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of everyday creativity, defined as ordinary yet significant creative actions performed by individuals in the course of their everyday work. By integrating theoretical perspectives with practical examples, it offers insights into how everyday creativity unfolds in practice and how it contributes to organizational adaptation and innovation. Drawing on a systematic review of 83 empirical studies, the book provides a comprehensive synthesis of everyday creativity definitions, frameworks, and key characteristics. It also positions everyday creativity within the broader creativity literature and integrates the psychological and sociocultural perspectives that explain how creative ideas emerge, develop, and gain recognition. Bridging theory and practice, the book presents real-world examples based on a study of 52 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), investigating the influence of leadership on cultivating workplace conditions that can either enable or constrain creativity at work. It also examines entrepreneurial initiatives created to develop services that assisted society during the COVID-19 pandemic. These examples demonstrate how everyday creative ideas evolve through successive creative cycles, showing how modest insights can be refined, expanded, and transformed into enduring organizational innovations. Together, they provide a dynamic understanding of creativity as an ongoing process, emphasizing the motivational aspects that enhance individuals' persistence in creative pursuits. Combining theoretical perspectives with practical examples, this book offers researchers, students, managers, and organizational leaders a fresh perspective on how creativity unfolds in everyday work and how small creative acts can become a powerful source of innovation and organizational change