Creativity, Innovation and Design- Argumentative Essay
Creativity, Innovation & Design
Week 4: Creativity in organizations
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The main focus of Week 4 tutorial activities is to:
Understand the factors that help and harm creativity within organizations
Learn how to complete Assignment 1
Allow students the opportunity to write a practise argumentative essay skeleton in class
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Watch these videos……
Watch
‘Igniting creativity to transform corporate culture: Catherine Courage at TEDxKyoto 2012’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Y7qlPFpqw
and
‘How to build your creative confidence: David Kelley’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16p9YRF0l-g
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According to Catherine Courage what strategies can companies use to ignite creativity? How do these strategies compare with Amabile’s 1997) Componential Theory of Organizational Creativity and Innovation?
What factors within organizations lead to the obstruction of creativity in organizations?
Read the article titled ‘Survey Monkey’s CEO on creating a culture of curiosity’. What strategies did the new CEO use to inspire creativity in the employees?
Is it the role of managers and organizations to actively help their employees to become more creative? Give reasons for your answer.
What is meant by creative self-efficacy? How can organizations build up their employees’ creative self-efficacy?
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Assignment 1: Argumentative academic essay
Due date: Friday 28th August 2020 on or before 7pm (Week 6)
Assessment weighting: 30% of final grade
Word Count: 2000 words (+/- 10%), excludes reference list
References: Minimum of 8 scholarly work plus non-scholarly work where real-world corporate examples are used, formatted according to RMIT Harvard style
Turnitin Similarity Percentage: The expected Turnitin Similarity Percentage is 20% or less
Format: Professionally presented using Times New Roman 12 point font, justified
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What is an argumentative academic essay?
This is a piece of writing that examines a given ‘claim/statement’ and agrees with it (defends it) or disagrees with it (refutes it) or partially agrees with it (give a rebuttal) by using relevant theoretical and practical evidence.
In an argumentative academic essay, you must examine the given claim/statement and
either
1) Agree with it – provide theoretical and practical evidence for why you agree with the claim/statement
or
2) Disagree with it - provide theoretical and practical evidence for why you disagree with the claim/statement
or
3) Partially agree with it – Agree to some aspects of the claim/statement and provide theoretical/practical evidence for this and then show why you also disagree with other aspects and provide theoretical/practical evidence for this
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‘Organizations can make very little impact on strengthening creativity, innovation and design thinking processes as these are dependent on individual employees'
In your essay:
State whether you agree/disagree or partially agree with the above statement
Write why you agree/disagree or partially agree with the above statement
Back this up with relevant theoretical evidence from scholarly work
Also use practical evidence from non-scholarly work
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Structure of the Essay
Introduction
Purpose – why write this essay? Provide some background perspective on the essay statement
Scope – what theories will be used, what examples will be given in the essay
Stance – do you agree or disagree or partially agree with the statement given
Structure – a summary of what the reader can expect to read in remaining parts of the essay
Body
Paragraph 1: Theme 1 (definitions of key concepts, why you agree/disagree/partially agree with the statement)
Paragraph 2: Theme 2 (Theoretical evidence for your stance/ practical evidence for your stance)
Paragraph 3: Theme 3 (Theoretical evidence for your stance/ practical evidence for your stance)
Conclusion – Summary of key arguments given in paras 1, 2 and 3, must NOT include any new materials or arguments
References – Harvard style of referencing (refer to RMIT Easy Cite)
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What are scholarly and non-scholarly sources?
Scholarly sources: Academic journal articles, academic books, textbooks, PhD/Masters dissertations
Non-scholarly sources: Company webpages, newspaper articles, magazine articles
In your essay include:
Minimum of 8 scholarly work (published within the last 10 years, from the field of management, relevant to your arguments)
and
non-scholarly work where real-world corporate examples are used
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Possible peer-reviewed journals
Harvard Business Review
Creativity and Innovation Management
Creative Research Journal
Journal of Management
Human Relations
Articles used must be published within the last 10 years (i.e., 2010 – 2020) and relevant to your arguments
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How to access peer-reviewed journals
Use Google Scholar
Go to https://scholar.google.com.au/
Type in the keywords you want to search for and press enter
Choose from the list of journals provided
2. Use RMIT Library search bar
Go to the RMIT Library website
Type in the keywords you want to search for in the library search bar and press enter
Choose from the list of journals provided
Examining the reference lists of journal articles you have already found
Every journal article will have a list of references used in that article
Search through this reference list to see if there are any articles that may be relevant to your essay
If there are some that seem relevant to you, download them from the RMIT library website, read them and use them as appropriate
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Referencing
Use the RMIT Harvard style of referencing for in-text references and for including the sources you used in the reference list
RMIT Easy Cite Referencing tool:
https://www.rmit.edu.au/library/study/referencing/easy-cite-referencing-tool
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Marking rubric
The marking rubric for Assignment 1 is on Canvas
Please go through the marking rubric before you start working on Assignment 1
You will be given marks for Assignment 1 based on the availability of criteria given in the marking rubric.
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Augmentative essay writing activity
Write an argumentative essay skeleton for the following statement.
Creativity is more important than innovation
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Structure of the essay
Introduction
Purpose of writing the essay: The purpose of writing this essay is ……
Stance: Agree, disagree or partially disagree with the essay statement
Scope: Theories being used in the essay, real world examples being used in the essay
Structure: Para 1 will include ……, para 2 will include ……., etc.
Body
Para 1:
Para 2:
Para 3:
Conclusion
Summarize what was discussed in the body of the essay, do not introduce new theory or examples in the conclusion
References
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