| Description |
1 online resource (806 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contributors -- Preface -- Individual and group level influences -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Creativity in organizations micro and mezzo perspectives: Individual and team-level determinants -- Abstract -- Introduction and foundation -- Individual -- Groups and teams -- References -- Chapter 2: Measuring creativity in organizations: The multifaceted nature of creativity -- Abstract -- Importance and need for effective measurement of creativity -- Current state of creativity measurement -- Levels of measurement |
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Self-evaluations or self-perception of creativity -- Other self-report measures -- Supervisory evaluation -- Peer evaluations -- Objective performance measures -- Divergent thinking measures -- Consensual assessment technique -- Summary and recommendations -- References -- Chapter 3: Guiding the study of how leaders can overcome a bias against novelty in organizations -- Abstract -- Defining and evaluating idea novelty -- Understanding bias against novelty -- How leaders evaluate novel ideas in organizational contexts -- Studying how leaders overcome a bias against subordinates' novel ideas |
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Next steps to studying how leaders can overcome a bias against novelty -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Outcomes of creativity in organizations: From organization to human-centered benefits -- Abstract -- New context: Organizations as complex systems operating in turbulent times -- Organization-oriented outcomes -- A shift toward human-centered outcomes -- Recommendations for future research -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Individual -- Chapter 5: The quandary in creativity research: Implications for understanding innovation in groups and organizations -- Abstract |
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Introduction: A quandary in creativity research -- The remote-associates view of creative thinking -- Remote associates as a scientific paradigm -- The remote-associates paradigm in analyses of creativity in groups and organizations -- In vivo creativity without remote associations: A problem for the remote-associates paradigm -- Remote associations in organizational creativity? IDEO's shopping cart -- Remote associations? Unpacking IDEO's creative process -- Case studies of medical innovations -- Ordinary thinking produces new ideas |
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Ordinary thinking and creative thinking: Implications for increasing creativity in groups and organizations -- The creativity quandary: General conclusions and some remaining questions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Creative problem solving -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Observing processes: early uses of think-aloud protocols -- Systematization of earlier approaches -- Knowledge and its productive use -- Spontaneously forming the wrong representation: Insight versus noninsight problems -- Being pushed toward the wrong (or right) representation: Recent exposure |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Applications: The creative problem solving model and creativity training |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hunter, Sam
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| ISBN |
9780323915571 |
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0323915574 |
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