1. What organizational and supervisory steps can you take to encourage original thinking on the part of your library staff?
Decentralize decision making and delegate more authority to encourage original thinking. Also loosen departmental lines and jurisdiction to increase interdepartmental contact and communication.
2. How can decentralization of decision making encourage original thinking?
By increasing feedback from all levels and peer recognition, which will enhance the sense of purpose for staff and may lead to innovative ideas even if original thinking does not directly increase.
3. What effect can interdepartmental communication have?
It can produce innovative ideas. Greater communication provides a slightly stressful situation which stimulates creative thinking. It creates situations to generate new ideas for tasks or problems