WASTAGE REDUCTION & CREATIVITY

Wastage Reduction & Creativity in an Organization

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Wastage Reduction & Creativity in an Organization

Creativity

Creativity is not something that a person can be taught with or something that could be induced in a person medically. It is something a person is born with. Creativity is the extent to which a person can think beyong the obvious and use the environment coupled with spontaneous thinking to make something unique and different. In a business environment, creativity is the most essential factor that separates one employee from another. Usually, the employees who reach the managerial and the higher level are people who are creative and work better than the other pool of employees. Creation of wastage is a common phenomenon in organizations. Usually, when a group of people come together to work and set up an organization, there is a lot of wastage and creation of resources that might not always be used or consumed (Swanson & Fisher, 2011); (Trevino & Nelson, 2010). These resources consume costs of the organization and therefore, it is vital for managers to be able to sort these resources and manage their utilization. Two things are of concern here:

Do not use or buy more resources than needed. Keep the acquisition of resources to the minimum

Try to find alternative uses of resources already acquired so that there is little or no wastage

Reflection

Within the organization, a manager can show creativity by identifying additional ways to use the resources that would otherwise go to waste. For example, if the printers of a department are becoming obsolete, a manager could have them placed in another department where there is excessive printing, so that the printers are worn out and used to the maximum before they reach the end of their life. Similarly, if a manager sees that an employee is being underutilized within one department, the manager can place that employee in another department where his skills and talent may be utilized better (Sims, 2002).

Cognitive Blocks

Cognitive blocks, in the contex of this paper, can be said to be the set of capabilities that managers have when it comes to making decisions and taking actions. In the case of wastage within an organization, a manager has to see certain factors and keep certain considerations in mind before making decisions. Some of these factors that a manager has to consider and analyse before taking any decision include:

New and better ways of using the resources without affecting quality or output

The ethical consideration of reusing resources

Delegating of wastage management to subordinates and coworkers

There is a theory known as the implicit theory which categorized employees' ability beliefs into two distinctions, one is entity belief and another is incremental belief. Employees who have entity belief think intelligence is an unchangeable, fixed thing, but employees who have incremental belief think intelligence is a malleable thing which can be cultivated through efforts and learning. Employees who have incremental beliefs tend to try to overcome challenges when they face some problems using various strategies such ...