Six Working Hours to Foster Organizational Creativity, How Additional Leisure Time & Well Being Impact the Employees’ Creative Output

Abstract

Today’s competition requires us to understand the root of innovation; Creativity. Indeed, this human ability that resides in every person, can lead to improved organizational resilience and valuable solutions for company's bottom line. This thesis wants to confirm if creativity might be an outcome of the ‘Six hours working day’ welfare practice. It explores if improved work force’s conditions may facilitate creativity through a narrative exposition based on the existing literature and on experts’ interviews. As a result, the qualitative nature of this work allows for the framing of a general model that can explain the connection between this working practice and creativity. Indeed, it will explore how employees, benefiting of the value generated by this shorter working day, return this welfare gain in terms of creative productivity. Furthermore, this thesis presents a psychological perspective about the effects on the working environment of happiness, motivation, stress, health, leisure, and other life dimensions. In other words, what are the outcomes of a working environment that do not overburden, stress, or exhaust workers? What about the effects of a different work/life balance? Are those linked to creativity? Following this path, the work is going to explore a novel connection between existing topics to inform on innovative management practices and managerial theories.