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Proactive vitality management in the work context: development and validation of a new instrument

- Op den Kamp, Emma M., Tims, Maria, Bakker, Arnold B., Demerouti, Evangelia

Re-creating slum tourism : perspectives from South Africa

- Booyens, Irma, Rogerson, Christian M.

Do problem solving, critical thinking and creativity play a role in knowledge management? A theoretical mathematics perspective

- Giannakopoulos, Paul, Buckley, Sheryl

  • Authors: Giannakopoulos, Paul , Buckley, Sheryl
  • Date: 2009
  • Subjects: Knowledge management , Problem solving , Critical thinking , Creativity , Mathematics , Psychopragmatic approach
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:6218 , ISBN 978-1-906638-40-5 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5308
  • Description: Litschka, Markom, Schunder (2006) state that "... a knowledge-based economy requires new approaches in management especially with employee oriented actions, because workability, well-being, and creativity of employees determine the success and sustainability of an organization." Such approaches have to be grounded on established learning theories for life long learning which are conducive to knowledge creation and knowledge acquisition. Situated learning (Lave & Wenger, 1997), constructivism (Piaget, 1971; Vygotsky, 1978), behaviourism (Thorndike, 1915; Skinner, 1958) and cognitivism (Wertheimer, 1912; Kohlberg, 1972; Mezirow, 1962, all cited by Hergenhahn and Olson (1997: 29-48) have dominated education for more than eight decades. Though each theory has made valuable contributions, management of knowledge requires higher order thinking skills such critical thinking, problem solving and creativity on the part of the manager of the organisational knowledge and the part of the knowledge creator. The importance of these three skills, especially for the last two decades, have not only been accepted as important cognitive skills by educators and employers, but they also form part of the critical outcomes in American educational policies (American college personnel association, 1994 cited by King & Baxter-Magolda, 1996) as well as in South Africa (SAQA, 1998; the White Paper on Further Education and Training, 1998: 21-23). What is suggested here is a new approach to knowledge management, the psycho-pragmatic approach, which makes use of theories of learning of mathematics as problem solving, critical thinking and creativity form the essence of knowledge acquisition (Schoenfeld, 1987; Skemp, 1977). Mathematics has been recognised as a subject that enhances higher order skills because on the one hand requires abstract thinking on the other promotes use and application of knowledge (Pushkin 2007; Alonso, 1992; Forinash, 1992). This new approach makes use of psychological learning theories for generation of knowledge and pragmatism for application of such knowledge. It is of cyclic nature as well as of spiral nature based on the idea of Nonaka and Konno (1998) model of knowledge and of Bruner's (1976) spiral curriculum.
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The behavioural and personality correlates of transactional and transformational leadership.

- Huysamen, R., Schepers, J.M., Zaaiman, J.

  • Authors: Huysamen, R. , Schepers, J.M. , Zaaiman, J.
  • Date: 2003
  • Subjects: Transactional leadership , Transformational leadership , Leadership style , Creativity , Multifactor leadership questionnaire
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:6593 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/946
  • Description: The article argues that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between leadership style and creativity. It was found that there is a higher statistically significant positive relation between transformational leadership style and creativity than between creativity and the other leadership styles. Creativity (fluency of thought and originality) can partially be accounted for by the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. To demonstrate this in the study, the researcher uses, firstly the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire to identify leadership style, and secondly three measuring instruments that measure creativity. The argument is substantiated by the results of a statistical analysis of leadership style and creativity.
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Concepts of creative leadership of women leaders in 21st century

- Mayer, Claude-Helene, Oosthuizen, Rudolf M.

  • Authors: Mayer, Claude-Helene , Oosthuizen, Rudolf M.
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: 21st century workplace , Creative strategies , Creativity
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/436793 , uj:37904 , Citation: Mayer, C.H. & Oosthuizen, R.M. 2020. Concepts of creative leadership of women leaders in 21st century. , DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/cs.2020.10267 , ISSN: 2345-0479
  • Description: Abstract: This article presents the subjective perspectives of women leaders working in higher education institutions in the 21st century in South Africa. It focuses in particular on creativity as demonstrated by women leaders working in culturally and gender diverse post-apartheid settings. The aim is to contribute to the discourse on the creativity of women leaders from diverse cultural backgrounds within South Africa higher education institutions by examining how women leaders experience creativity and what creativity means to them from a qualitative perspective. The study reported on assessed the experiences of creativity of 23 women leaders and their views on creativity and creative leadership by means of a research paradigm based on Wilhelm Dilthey’s modern hermeneutics. It used qualitative research methods, such as semi-structured interviews, as well as observations within one selected higher education institution. Data was analysed by means of content analysis. Quality research criteria and ethical considerations were upheld. The findings highlight the creative skills and attitudes of women leaders underlying successful leadership and the types of creative leadership applied. They suggest that women leaders’ creativity manifests in facilitating creativity in higher education institutions by fostering the creativity of others rather than directing their own creative vision through or integrating it in the work of employees.
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Future entrepreneurs design a way : supporting product innovation with a design thinking approach in children’s extracurricular sewing programme

- Botha, A. D. V., Tselepis, T. J., De Wet, A. J. C.

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