Individual Creativity in the Workplace (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Reiter-Palmon, Roni; Kaufman, James C.; Kennel, Victoria L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rapid technological change, global competition, and economic uncertainty have all contributed to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace identifies those factors, including what motivational and cognitive factors influence individual creativity, as well as the contextual factors that impact creativity such as teams and leadership.The book takes research findings out of the lab and provides examples of these findings put to use in real world organizations. - Identifies factors facilitating or inhibiting creativity in organizational settings - Summarizes research on creativity, cognition, and motivation - Provides real world examples of these factors operating in organizations today - Highlights creative thought processes and how to encourage them - Outlines management styles and leadership to encourage creativity - Explores how to encourage individual creativity in team contexts

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128132395
• Artikelnr.: 54166450

Autorenporträt

Dr. Reiter-Palmon?is the Varner Professor of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology and the Director of the I/O Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). She is also the Director of Innovation for the Center for Collaboration Science, an inter-disciplinary program at UNO. She received her Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Her research focuses on creativity and innovation in the workplace at individual and team level, development of leadership and creative problem-solving skills, and leading creative individuals. She is an associate editor for the?European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, as well as?Frontiers: Organizational Psychology. She is the former Editor of?The Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics and the Arts, the leading journal on the psychology of creativity. She serves on the editorial boards of 10 additional journal in I-O psychology, management, and creativity. She has published f

our edited books on the topic of creativity, and is the editor of the Palgrave series on Creativity and Innovation in Organizations. She has obtained over 8 million dollars of funding from granting agencies, public and non-profit organizations, and businesses. She has been elected as a fellow of APA Division 10 (creativity) and division 14 (I-O) in recognition of her contribution to the field of organizational and team creativity.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1 Creativity and Innovation: Larger Concepts
1. Moving from creativity to innovation
2. Creativity and innovation in organizations
3. The fuzzy front-end: How creativity drives organizational innovation

Section 2: Intelligence and Cognition
4. Interruptions and multiple tasks: Advantages and disadvantages for creativity at work
5. Creative thought processes
6. The intellectual structure and outlooks for individual creativity research

Section 3: Motivation/affect/preferences
7. Creativity styles in the workplace: New versus Different
8. Freedom, structure, and creativity
9. Antecedents and consequences of self-efficacy for creativity in organizations
10. Affective experience and individual creativity at work

Section 4: Leadership and teams
11. The emergence of dual leaders in innovation management: When two heads are better than one
12. The influence of individual innovativeness and intelligence on occupational level among leaders
13. Individuals within a team context

Section 5: Application
14. Fostering creativity in organizations
15. Understanding the role of creativity in the 21st century Army
16. Leadership development: Training creativity skills for leaders