GroupsGroupthinkIdea generationCreativity can be a significant advantage in the pursuit of quality improvement in medical and health-care settings; however, it is often impeded by various social psychological factors, such as groupthink. This chapter synthesizes empirical research in organizational ...
Although there are many factors that appear to inhibit creativity in groups, our review and analysis suggests that interaction in groups and teams can be an important source of creative ideas and innovations. A theoretical model of creativity in idea-generating groups is developed and implications ...
The first is the rise of the knowledge economy in which ideas become a distinctly recognized input into the production process, separated organizationally, geographically, and culturally from manufacturing and manual labor. The second of these developments is the increasing emphasis on the cultural ...
CreativeYouthIdeas.comfocuses on youth and those who work with youth. But scavenger hunts have been popular with youth, adults, and children for decades. They became more popular with “The Amazing Race” and reality TV shows a few years ago. And today scavenger hunts are as popular as they...
Wewill also be looking across these groups to determine whether or not there is a relationshipbetween crea-tivity and mobility, creativity and identity as well as creativity and well-being. We hope to be able to show that thinkingcreatively can not only be encouraged and furthered in a ...
Underlying this view is an assumption that undue reliance on available knowledge would inhibit generation of the new ideas that have been found to be the hallmark of creativity. In recent years, however, it has become clear that creative thought is a form of performance involving the generation ...
the need to reduce the number of positions in many organizations, and the introduction of self-managing work groups have led to speculation that the middl... M Sullivan - 《Library Trends》 被引量: 11发表: 1992年 Workplace Creativity, Innovation, and Age While work performance is a complex...
In Creative People Must Be Stopped, business professor and consultant David A. Owens discusses the challenges of innovation within organizations. While creative new ideas are increasingly important to stay competitive in today�s dynamic marketplace, he argues that many organizations impose systematic ...
According to Torrance (1968), creative thinking has four dimensions: fluency (production of ideas), originality (production of unusual ideas), elaboration (persistency in introducing details to products), and flexibility (production of different ideational categories). Creative thinking skills, which ...
an effort to rebut much of the research concluding that breakthroughs come just from the exchange of ideas in groups. Sawyer believed that the stronger research pointed toward the most creative people being both introvertedandextraverted. He argued that, on average, groups are ultimately better at...