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The Motivation and Management of Highly Specialized Creative Employees

In: Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments

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  • Helle Hedegaard Hein

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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.

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  • Helle Hedegaard Hein, 2012. "The Motivation and Management of Highly Specialized Creative Employees," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anabella Davila & Marta M. Elvira & Jacobo Ramirez & Laura Zapata-Cantu (ed.), Understanding Organizations in Complex, Emergent and Uncertain Environments, chapter 10, pages 167-184, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-02608-8_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137026088_10
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