Glenn HoutgraafRadboud University | RU · Institute of Management Research
Glenn Houtgraaf
Master of Public Administration
Currently researching public sector creativity as the origin of public sector innovation
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Introduction
Currently researching workplace creativity within public organizations and how it can lead to innovation. Aim is to describe public sector creative processes and indicate both personal and organizational conditions that hinder and stimulate it. Goal is to improve the innovativeness of public organization in order to safeguard optimal public services. Our method consists of a qualitative longitudinal diary study, a literature study, a survey and an experiment. Please do feel free to contact.
Skills and Expertise
Additional affiliations
October 2019 - present
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- Currently researching public sector creativity as the origin of public sector innovation. The aim is to define and analyze public sector forms of creativity, explore these creative processes and indicate what makes public sector creativity unique and successful. This knowledge will allow us to improve the innovativeness of public organization in order to safeguard optimal public services.
July 2018 - October 2019
De Issuemakers
Position
- PR Professional
Education
September 2017 - September 2019
September 2014 - July 2017
University of Amsterdam
Field of study
- Political Science
Publications
Publications (4)
Public sector creativity is the origin of innovation and crucial to public sector organizations’ ability to serve the public’s interest. Factors affecting public servants’ creativity, however, remained unexplored. This longitudinal qualitative digital diary study (N = 142) explores these factors. Our findings indicate that public servants’ creativi...
Purpose
This study examines the effects of perceived leadership styles on the perceived creativity and innovation of public servants working in a rapidly developing country while shedding light on the internal causal dynamics of these effects.
Design/methodology/approach
Survey data are collected from 568 Qatari public servants working in a variet...
This qualitative longitudinal digital diary study explores public sector creativity in practice, analysing public servants’ ideas, in terms of type and magnitude, and what practices public servants apply in coming up with these ideas and what initially triggered their creativity. Contrasting with extant research and assumptions, the findings indica...
This systematic literature review analyses how public servants apply workplace creativity to come up with ideas for public sector innovations, defining public sector creativity and analyzing its practices, features, trends and hiatuses in knowledge for which we provide a future research agenda. Creativity is the origin of innovation. Public sector...
