Talent Acquisition and Organizational Creativity Design Challenges

This essay explores the challenges in designing organizational creativity, particularly focusing on the acquisition of talented employees and their effective collaboration. It addresses issues such as role uncertainty, lack of trust, unclear goals, talent differences, motivational challenges, and physical p...Read More

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Management
Organizational creativity refers to the knowledge, concepts and principles
circumnavigating the transformation of an organization (Rasulzada, 2017). In other words,
organizational creativity entails all the activities and operations aimed to explore individual and
workplace creativity within the organization. Objectively, organizational creativity aims at
providing innovative solutions on safety, organizational and health issues. However, the design
and application of organizational creativity have been adversely impacted by a series of
challenges. The current researchers reveal that most of the organizational creativity challenges
faced by the managerial departments in firms are human resource related (Catmull, & Wallace,
2014). Therefore, this essay is set fundamentally to explore the validity of the statement that the
critical challenge in designing organizational creativity circumnavigate the acquisition of
talented employees to effectively work with each other.
Catmull’s theory argues that individuals who constitute a creative organization have to
operate collectively towards the achievement of the designed goals and objectives (Catmull, &
Wallace, 2014). However, huge differences exist between an individual working solely on a
particular task a teamwork scenario. Usually, when individuals are operating as a team, their
roles are shared among the participants. In my opinion, teamwork introduces a role
uncertainty creative organizations hence creating a state of confusion especially among the
members who haven't worked as a team before. Some of the members may opt to take on the
easier tasks while leaving significant operations unsettled. Personally, the managers of the team
have a critical role in identifying the roles of the participants within the organization.
Additionally, Lack of trust is a fundamental challenge in promoting cooperation among
the members of the organizations. Regarding the concept brought forth by Catmull’s theory, a
creative organization is a team which requires the participation of all the members in tackling the
tasks assigned by the manager for the achievement of the defined objectives. Therefore, it is
essential for each member of the team to respect the decisions suggested by the colleagues in for
the completion of the assigned tasks. However, some members of the group may make mistakes
leading to decisions which promote incompetence and ineffectiveness in the achievement of the
defined goals and objectives. Such a narrative may make the non-participants of the decision to
lose trust with their colleagues hindering cooperation among the members of the creative
organization.

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Often, the teamwork ideology is associated with unclear goals and objectives
(ProofHub, 2018). Most of the tasks done individually are effectively completed due to ability to
formulate smart objectives. However, promoting collective performance within the creative
organization is suicidal. Usually, an individual has to consider the strengths and weaknesses of
the other individuals within the organization before formulating a standard set of goals and
objectives. Personally, such an ideology is problematic in the sense that some of the members of
the organization will be overwhelmed while others’ capabilities are underutilized. Therefore,
such unclear objectives are likely to promote conflicts among the team members. The differences
in the targets among the team members have a great impact on the entire organization as an
entity.
Talent differences present huge challenges in promoting cooperation between the
members of the creative organization. Usually, some members of the organization are likely to
contribute more compared to the rest not necessarily for being held responsible for the
organization but due to the allowance provided by their higher talent levels. However, the
resulting work level differences present huge conflicts among the members of the organization.
In my opinion, the organizational conflicts created due to talent differences have a great impact
on the effectiveness of achieving the organizational objectives. Also talent differences create a
condition whereby some employees are faster compared to others. Such differences may result in
a lower performance making the organization more frustrated. As a result, a conflict is developed
among the members. Therefore, the managers of the creative organization have a fundamental
role in designing a compensation program which is tied to output levels of the employees
(Renard, 2017).
Motivational challenges are likely to arise while trying to promote collective operations
among the members of the creative organization. Often, the predisposing factor to lack of
motivation among the employees is disengagement. Disengagement is a prominent problem in
organizations which lack direction and clear vision (Rohia, 2018). The members in such
organizations are likely not to broadly understand their roles resulting into lack of incentive to
engage in the organizational operations. Not only does disengagement result into lack of motive
to participate in the organizational activities but also create a group of rebels to the overall goals
and objectives of the firm leading to a conflict between the leadership department and the
employees.

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A fundamental challenge circumnavigates physical proximity. Figuring out the fact that
a creative organization has to make use of innovative, knowledgeable and educated individuals,
there is a higher probability that the members of the organization will not come from the same
locality. A physical proximity challenge presents a membership cooperation enhancement
problem in two critical ways. Firstly, long distance members face an engagement challenge
which interferes with their familiarity with one another (Minssen, 2011). Despite the current
technological advancement, researches have proven that teams work better when placed within
close physical proximity (Attfield, 2018). Second, Catmull’s theory suggests that the longer
the physical proximity, the higher the likelihood of cultural diversity. Cultural differences among
the members of the creative organization present different norms, values and attitudes in the
workplace interfering with the effective realization of organizational goals and objectives
(Eztalks, 2018). In my opinion, the firm manager has the responsibility to formulate unique
agreed organizational culture that should guide all the operations within the creative corporation.
In conclusion, several challenges face designing of an effective creative organization. As
earlier indicated through Catmull’s theory, the fundamental challenge is based on the linkage of
organizational employees to work as an entity. In my opinion, a solution to a particular
challenge in the context opens the door for a more complex form divergence among the members
of the creative organization. Therefore, it's essential for the human resource managers to conduct
more substantive research on some of the problems presented within this project to bring the
crisis circumnavigating the efficiency and effectiveness of designing a creative organization to
an end.

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