Individual Creativity in the Workplace explores how rapid technological change, global competition and economic uncertainty have all contributed to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. The book identifies key factors, including what motivational and cognitive factors influence individual creativity and the contextual factors that impact creativity, such as teams and leadership. The book takes research findings out of the lab and provides examples from real world organizations. Key Features • Identifies factors that facilitate or inhibit creativity in organizational settings • Summarizes research on creativity, cognition and motivation • Provides real world examples operating in today's organizations • Highlights creative thought processes and how to encourage their use • Outlines management styles and leadership to encourage creativity • Explores how to encourage individual creativity in team contexts Readership Researchers in creativity, social psychologists, personality psychologists, industrial organizational psychologists Table of Contents 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 About the Editors: Roni Reiter-Palmon Professor of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology and Director for the Center for Collaboration Science, an inter-disciplinary program at UNO. Editor of Psychology of Creativity, Aesthetics and the Arts. Associate editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Business and Psychology, and International Journal of Problem Solving and Creativity. Affiliations and Expertise University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA Victoria Kennel Affiliations and Expertise University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE USA James C. Kaufman Professor of Educational Psychology, author/editor of 35+ books on creativity, author of 250+ research articles on creativity, cofounding editor of both Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts and Psychology of Popular Media Culture. Editor, International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving. Recipient of NAGC’s Torrance Award, APA’s Berlyne and Farnsworth Awards, and Mensa’s research award. Former president of American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) Division 10. Affiliations and Expertise University of Connecticut, CT, USA |