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Cooperative Creative Communication: Developing a Communication Tool and Exercise Programs to Encourage Individual Creativity and Promote Independent Well-being at the Workplace
The purpose of this thesis is to report on the author’s personal project, Project Cx3, aimed at promoting the well-being of workers through the development of a communication tool and related programs, which began in January 2013 and is still ongoing as of May 2016. This thesis consists of the project background, a theoretical framework, a section on design and development, a section on implementation, and a section on evaluation. The implementation of the project was supported by five working life partners who agreed to run trial workshops and examinations, namely Keio University, M-Bridge, Harmony, Fuji-Xerox, and 204 Project. The deterioration of mental health at the workplace is a serious issue that creates huge financial damage to society through reduced productivity, sick-leave absences and medical costs. However, in the case of Japan, mental-health campaigns run by authorities tend to focus on the symptoms and causes from a purely medical perspective, ignoring individual definitions of well-being and happiness of workers. For sustainable health development at the workplace, a worker-centred approach to well-being promotion should be considered. In order to assist employees to promote their own well-being, thereby improving the overall output of the organisation, the author created supportive tools named Cx3BOOSTER® and Cx3mini focusing on the key words of communication, creativity and well-being. For developing the tool, the main methods taken were solution-focused approaches, creative approaches and group dynamics. Solution-focused methods aimed to assist co-workers in rec-ognizing each other’s unique qualities, and also to allow each employee to express his/her own personality and feelings. Creative approaches and team-building methods could help workers appreciate the diversity of their group and to gain a solution-oriented mind set to empower themselves. Hypotheses were combined with existing theories and methods in to the tool design and program development. During 2015-2016, over 300 people ...
Cooperative Creative Communication: Developing a Communication Tool and Exercise Programs to Encourage Individual Creativity and Promote Independent Well-being at the Workplace
The purpose of this thesis is to report on the author’s personal project, Project Cx3, aimed at promoting the well-being of workers through the development of a communication tool and related programs, which began in January 2013 and is still ongoing as of May 2016. This thesis consists of the project background, a theoretical framework, a section on design and development, a section on implementation, and a section on evaluation. The implementation of the project was supported by five working life partners who agreed to run trial workshops and examinations, namely Keio University, M-Bridge, Harmony, Fuji-Xerox, and 204 Project. The deterioration of mental health at the workplace is a serious issue that creates huge financial damage to society through reduced productivity, sick-leave absences and medical costs. However, in the case of Japan, mental-health campaigns run by authorities tend to focus on the symptoms and causes from a purely medical perspective, ignoring individual definitions of well-being and happiness of workers. For sustainable health development at the workplace, a worker-centred approach to well-being promotion should be considered. In order to assist employees to promote their own well-being, thereby improving the overall output of the organisation, the author created supportive tools named Cx3BOOSTER® and Cx3mini focusing on the key words of communication, creativity and well-being. For developing the tool, the main methods taken were solution-focused approaches, creative approaches and group dynamics. Solution-focused methods aimed to assist co-workers in rec-ognizing each other’s unique qualities, and also to allow each employee to express his/her own personality and feelings. Creative approaches and team-building methods could help workers appreciate the diversity of their group and to gain a solution-oriented mind set to empower themselves. Hypotheses were combined with existing theories and methods in to the tool design and program development. During 2015-2016, over 300 people ...
Cooperative Creative Communication: Developing a Communication Tool and Exercise Programs to Encourage Individual Creativity and Promote Independent Well-being at the Workplace
Obayashi, Aya (author) / Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2016-01-01
10024/265
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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