Bringing Fun and Creativity to Work

How do you inspire employees to become more motivated and perform better? By challenging them to test their creativity and collaboration skills through a team-based contest.

Hari Kumar and Satish Raghavendran

Fall 2014

Fostering employee engagement can be a formidable problem for large organizations with far-flung teams operating in different time zones. On the surface, large organizations should be able to handle the ups and downs of intelligent risk-taking. In practice, however, their talent management processes often enforce conformity, legitimize mediocrity and penalize failed attempts at innovative thinking. For employees, a tried-and-true way to survive in such environments is to be average and to avoid ...