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OverviewRapid 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roni Reiter-Palmon (Varner Professor of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology; Director of the I/O Psychology Graduate Program, University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), NE, USA) , Victoria L. Kennel (University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE USA) , James C. Kaufman (Professor of Education Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA) , Roni Reiter-Palmon (University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA)Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Imprint: Academic Press Inc Weight: 0.610kg ISBN: 9780128132388ISBN 10: 0128132388 Pages: 420 Publication Date: 15 August 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsSection 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 leadersReviewsAuthor InformationDr. 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 four 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. James C. Kaufman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author/editor of more than 45 books and 300 papers, which include theoretical contributions such as the Four-C Model of Creativity (with Ron Beghetto) and empirical work, such as the study that spawned the “Sylvia Plath Effect. He is a past president of Division 10 (Society for Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts) of the American Psychological Association (APA). James has won many awards, including Mensa’s research award, the Torrance Award from the National Association for Gifted Children, and APA’s Berlyne, Arnheim, and Farnsworth awards. He co-founded two major journals (Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts and Psychology of Popular Media Culture). He has tested Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s creativity on CNN, appeared in the hit Australian show Redesign Your Brain, narrated the comic book documentary Independents, and is set to appear in a 2021 Netflix documentary. He wrote the book and lyrics to Discovering Magenta, which had its NYC premiere in 2015, and co-authored a book on bad baseball pitchers with his father. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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