As of today, I became a registered organizational designer, a member of the Orgdesignhub (Centar za organizacijski dizajn COD), based in Croatia and ran by our friend and colleague from Faculty of Economics and Business University of Zagreb:

Centar za organizacijski dizajn (COD) je virtualna zajednica studenata, znanstvenika i stručnjaka koji se žele informirati, učiti i razvijati u području organizacije i menadžmenta, s posebnim naglaskom na razvoj organizacije i ljudskih potencijala.

Jezgru COD tima čini nekolicina znanstvenika koja se aktivno bavi teorijom i praksom dizajniranja i organiziranja poslovnih sustava, s ciljem njihova daljnjeg razvoja i povećanja individualne, grupne i organizacijske djelotvornosti.

Some more good news, our three-study paper 'I want to be creative, but … preference for creativity, perceived clear outcome goals, work enjoyment, and creative performance' was (after three rounds of review, lasting for about a year and a half) accepted for publication in European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. Here's the abstract: 

​In today’s quickly changing work environment, many individuals want to be creative at their workplace, but only some of them succeed at manifesting these tendencies. In three studies, using both field and experimental data, we focused on transforming individuals’ preference for creativity, defined as an inclination for liking and wanting to be creative, into actual creativity. We first conducted a pilot Study 1 to establish discriminant validity to related constructs and provided initial evidence on predictive and incremental validity of the preference-for-creativity scale. Next, we performed a field Study 2, where we found that transforming preferences for creativity into supervisor-rated creativity is contingent upon employees’ perceptions of clear outcome goals. Clear outcome goals fostered individuals’ preference for creativity to result in higher levels of supervisor-rated creative behaviour—a finding that was replicated in an experimental Study 3. Furthermore, we explored whether work enjoyment mediated the moderated relationship between preference for creativity and creative outcomes. The results supported our mediated moderation model, whereby the manipulation of clear goals led to higher work enjoyment, influencing individuals’ preference for creativity to result in higher ratings of their creative outcomes.

The Norwegian Research Council recognized our past work and potential in our ideas, and approved our project entitled Fair Labor in the Digitized Economy, set up by our colleagues at BI Norwegian Business School Sut I Wong Humborstad and Christian Fieseler.

The primary objective of this project is to investigate what constitutes fair labor in an employment environment disrupted through new technology. To this end, we want
- to depict the substitution effects of technology and new digital business models on traditional forms of labor, and anticipate new forms of employment to deliver insights on the nature, desirability, advantages and disadvantages and the fairness of these emerging forms of work, taking into account both the employment and corporate perspective. 
- to deliberate on the effects more or less labor fairness has on human well-being and social cohesion.
- to derive solutions in terms of responsible technology design, corporate responsibilities, political and public deliberation, and employee skill building and consultation.

Specifically, the Slovene part of the project will focus on how creativity and innovation are shaped in light of the digital labor, and what potential job-design and organizational-design measures can be applied to overcome the barrier of not being present at work together, physically. The project consortium, besides the leading partner in Norway and Faculty of Economics University of Ljubljana, includes the following: institutions Harvard University, University of St. Gallen, Copenhagen Business School and Erasmus University (Rotterdam).