The Management of Innovations and Personal Well-being: A Trans-Disciplinary Model and Empirical Findings

Andreas Krafft ()
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Andreas Krafft: University of St. Gallen

Chapter Chapter 6 in Systemic Management for Intelligent Organizations, 2012, pp 99-119 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework, which, rooted in system-oriented management thinking, links the management of innovations with the personal sense of well-being, especially in relation to managers. Based on the new generation of the St. Gallen Management Model, we introduce the relationship between concrete management practices for innovation and the psychologically experienced “sense of coherence”. Reverting to Antonovsky’s salutogenic model, we argue that comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness are general concepts which help people – particularly managers and executives – to better manage complexity, handle external challenges, and lead innovation and change processes more smoothly, and by doing so to improve their own sense of well-being. This logic supposes a shift from the traditional view of coping with resistance to a more positive view of innovations as an imminent psychological resource for personal development and success. Based on an exploratory research study, we are able to present initial empirical findings supporting our conceptual model and to define lines for further research.

Keywords: Management of innovations; Sense of coherence; Well-being; New St. Gallen Management Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29244-6_6

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