Handbook of Organizational Creativity

• Author : Michael D. Mumford
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 03 July 2022

Michael D. Mumford

• Author : James C. Kaufman,Robert J. Sternberg
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 23 August 2010

The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education, business, and world cultures. The first section, 'Basic Concepts', is designed to introduce readers to both the history of and key concepts in the field of creativity.

• Author : Eardley, Alan,Uden, Lorna
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 30 September 2010

"This book provides a valuable resource for promoting current academic discourse on innovation in knowledge-intensive organizations and contexts"--Provided by publisher.

• Author : Linda Norris,Rainey Tisdale
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 16 June 2016

With this book, museum professionals can learn how to unleash creative potential throughout their institution. Drawing from a wide range of research on creativity as well as insights from today’s most creative museum leaders, the authors present a set of practical principles about how museum workers at any level—not just those in “creative positions”—can make a place for creativity in their daily practice. Replete with creativity exercises and stories from the field, the book guides readers in

• Author : Michael D. Mumford
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 07 October 2011

Handbook of Organizational Creativity is designed to explain creativity and innovation in organizations. This handbook contains 28 chapters dedicated to particularly complex phenomena, all written by leading experts in the field of organizational creativity. The format of the book follows the multi-level structure of creativity in organizations where creativity takes place at the individual level, the group level, and the organizational level. Beyond just theoretical frameworks, applications and interventions are also emphasized. This topic will be of particular interest to managers

• Author : Marlene Turner
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 03 October 2017

How do social influences affect such outcomes as creativity, innovation, originality, and inventiveness? While major advances have been made, many questions regarding the impact of contextual and social factors on creativity and innovation remain. This collection examines a rich array of contextual factors that affect these processes, discussing group, organizational, and situational attributes that both facilitate and impair creativity and innovation. The papers present insights into the conceptual underpinnings of those relationships and provide empirical evidence illuminating those relationships.

• Author : Roni Reiter-Palmon
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 03 July 2022

"For the past two decades, creativity and innovation have been viewed by researchers as critical to organizational success and survival. The purpose of this edited book is to provide a state-of-the-art review of the major concepts, current research, and practice issues related to team creativity and innovation"--

• Author : Michael D. Mumford,E. Michelle Todd
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 04 November 2019

This volume presents a distinctly multilevel perspective on creativity and innovation that considers individual-level, team-level, and firm-level factors. In illustrating these factors, this volume presents both theoretical and practical implications to guide researchers and practitioners alike in the continued study and advancement of creativity and innovation in organizations. Chapter authors not only discuss the abilities, personality, and motivational attributes that contribute to employee creativity, but they also address the impact of leadership and climate on creative performance in teams. Subsequently,

• Author : Melinda J. Rothouse
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 17 August 2020

This book examines how contemplative arts practice and a mindful approach to creativity, can be used to offer new possibilities for facilitating team creativity and collaboration in organizational settings. The author employs a qualitative, action research paradigm, using arts‐based and ethnographic methods, to explore the perceived effects of a contemplative arts workshop process on team creativity and collaboration within an organization. The book demonstrates how a contemplative arts workshop process may be used to facilitate mindfulness, trust, communication, collaboration,

• Author : Sven Hemlin,Carl Martin Allwood,Ben Martin,Michael D. Mumford
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 14 March 2014

Leadership is vital to creativity and successful innovation in groups and organizations; leadership is however seldom studied in the academic literature as a creativity driver. One reason for the lack of attention paid to leadership’s effect on creativity may be the common belief that creativity cannot and should not be managed. Creative individuals and groups are regarded as, and indeed often are, autonomous and self-driving. From this belief the erroneous conclusion is drawn that there is no need for

• Author : Roni Reiter-Palmon,Victoria L. Kennel,James C. Kaufman
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 07 August 2018

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

• Author : Roni Reiter-Palmon,Colin M. Fisher,Jennifer S. Mueller
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 04 January 2021

This book brings together leading scholars in the field of creativity to provide an overview and examination of the work of Teresa Amabile, a pioneer of research on organizational creativity. The authors explore Dr. Amabile’s contributions to the modern study of creativity in organizations and her influence on current research. Further, they also reflect on how her work might be used to advance future research, particularly in the areas of componential theory and its extension as well as the

• Author : Alexander S. McKay,Roni Reiter-Palmon,James C. Kaufman
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 11 September 2020

Recent surveys indicate today’s workers spend up to 80 percent of their time collaboratively working with others and that teams have become the fundamental unit of organizations. Despite this, there are few scholarly books summarizing how to best start, manage, and foster creativity in team environments. This work provides practitioners and researchers with information on what drives team creativity. Utilizing research from psychology, organizational behavior/management, business, and education, the book discusses how to encourage participation and collaboration, what makes

• Author : Kazuhide Odaki
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 18 October 2018

Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends. This book addresses the issue through reference to recent, large-scale surveys on the motivation of employee inventors (in Europe, the United States and Japan) and studies in social psychology and econometrics, arguing that the compensation is unlikely to boost the motivation, productivity

• Author : Elizabeth A. Mannix,Margaret Ann Neale,Jack A. Goncalo
• Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
• Release : 12 November 2009

Creativity is being recognized as an important source of competitive advantage because a single creative idea that is both novel and useful may take an organization in a profitable new direction. This work aims to promote the burgeoning interest in group creativity by identifying new questions that will drive future research in this area.