Generation Y & Team Creativity: The Strategic Role of e-HRM Architecture

Barbara Imperatori, Rita Bissola

2009

Abstract

Nowadays HR Departments intend to be a ‘business partner’; this means sustaining the critical sources of competitive advantages, such as knowledge creation, creativity processes and innovation. In order to attract, retain and develop the ‘new creative and always connected’ talents of the Y Generation, to design a new e-HRM architecture is a strategic issue. The present article, starting from a wide empirical experiment with a sample of 1078 students, provides valuable results about the relationship between team and individual creativity and suggests some useful indications for e-HRM, especially for the new and not yet well known Gen-Yers. Multiple measures of both individual and team creativity were considered. Data confirm that individual creativity is positively related with group creativity but it does not fully explain it. Interpersonal dynamics intervene. This evidence is the base for defining some guidelines which are useful in the design of strategic e-HR architecture, in supporting the new Y-Gen staffing, training and development as well as team design and interpersonal dynamics, in order to really enhance organizational creativity and competitive advantage sustainability.

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Imperatori B. and Bissola R. (2009). Generation Y & Team Creativity: The Strategic Role of e-HRM Architecture . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human Resource Information Systems - Volume 1: HRIS, (ICEIS 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-97-5, pages 59-68. DOI: 10.5220/0002175300590068


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@conference{hris09,
author={Barbara Imperatori and Rita Bissola},
title={Generation Y & Team Creativity: The Strategic Role of e-HRM Architecture },
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human Resource Information Systems - Volume 1: HRIS, (ICEIS 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={59-68},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002175300590068},
isbn={978-989-8111-97-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human Resource Information Systems - Volume 1: HRIS, (ICEIS 2009)
TI - Generation Y & Team Creativity: The Strategic Role of e-HRM Architecture
SN - 978-989-8111-97-5
AU - Imperatori B.
AU - Bissola R.
PY - 2009
SP - 59
EP - 68
DO - 10.5220/0002175300590068