The Motivation and Management of Highly Specialized Creative Employees

Helle Hedegaard Hein

Chapter 10 in Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments, 2012, pp 167-184 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Summary The future labour market will be increasingly dominated by a highly specialized creative work force. Based on long-time field studies at The Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, this chapter presents a theory on the motivation and management of highly specialized creative employees. The chapter will present an overarching model of motivation as well as a model of four archetypes of highly specialized creative employees, each having their own motivational profile, work ethics, etc. Special attention is paid to one of the archetypes — the Prima Donna — whose motivational profile is remarkably different from that of the three other archetypes. Together the two models will serve as a useful base for the motivation, management and leadership of highly specialized creative employees.

Keywords: Motivation; highly specialized employees; prima donnas; archetypes; calling; The Royal Danish Theatre; grounded theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137026088_10

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