Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Individual and Group Level Influences, Second Edition

  • 16h 59m
  • Roni Reiter-Palmon, Sam Hunter
  • Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
  • 2023

Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Individual and Group Level Influences, Second Edition covers creativity from many perspectives in two unique volumes, including artificial Intelligence work, creativity within specific applied domains (e.g., engineering, science, therapy), and coverage of leadership. The book includes individual, team and organizational level factors and includes organizational interventions to facilitate creativity (such as training). Chapters focus on creative abilities and creative problem-solving processes, along with individual differences such as motivation, affect and personality. New chapters include the neuroscience of creativity, creativity and meaning, morality/ethicality and creativity, and creative self-beliefs.

Sections on group level phenomena examine team cognition, team social processes, team diversity, social networks, and multi-team systems and creativity. Final coverages includes different types and approaches to leadership, such as transformational leadership, ambidextrous leadership leader-follower relations, and more.

  • Focuses on the key need to increase creativity and innovation in organizations
  • Identifies the factors influencing organizational creativity
  • Includes individual, group and organizational influences
  • Identifies personality traits and beliefs affecting creativity
  • Discusses problem-solving processes, idea evaluation, and diverent thinking
  • Contains new coverage of virtual teams, creative meetings, and multiteam systems
  • This expanded second edition is divided into two volumes. For further information on Leadership, Interventions, and Macro Level Issues visit https://shop.elsevier.com/books/handbook-of-organizational-creativity/reiter-palmon/978-0-323-91841-1

About the Author

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 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.

Dr. Hunter is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Penn State University. His work centers on Leadership and Innovation Management. Dr. Hunter teaches courses in organizational behavior, leadership, innovation and helps manage the practicum course in the I/O area. He is editor of the book Research in Multi-level Issues: A Focus on Innovation. Vol. VII. Oxford, England: Elsevier. He serves on the editorial boards of The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Creative Behavior, and The Journal of Business and Psychology.

In this Book

  • Creativity in Organizations Micro and Mezzo Perspectives: Individual and Team-Level Determinants
  • Measuring Creativity in Organizations: The Multifaceted Nature of Creativity
  • Guiding the Study of How Leaders Can Overcome a Bias against Novelty in Organizations
  • Outcomes of Creativity in Organizations: From Organization to Human-Centered Benefits
  • The Quandary in Creativity Research: Implications for Understanding Innovation in Groups and Organizations
  • Creative Problem Solving
  • Creative Abilities: Divergent Thinking
  • Idea Evaluation: Combining Openness and Expertise
  • Unlocking Creative Tensions with a Paradox Approach
  • Affect and Creativity in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
  • The People Make the Place: Advancing a Model for Personality Traits in Workplace Creativity
  • Creative Self-Beliefs: From Creative Potential to Creative Action
  • Brain Networks of Creative Cognition
  • Creativity and Meaning in Work
  • The Relationship Between Ethics and Creativity: An Ethical Leadership Focus
  • Team Creativity and Innovation: The Effect of Team Creative Cognition
  • Group Processes Toward Group Creativity
  • Virtual Teams
  • Diversity and Creativity in Organizations
  • Social Networks and Creativity: A Gender Perspective
  • Creativity and Innovation: The Role of Team and Organizational Climate
  • Project Management of Innovative Teams
  • Innovation and Ambidexterity in Multiteam Systems
  • Brainstorming: How to Get the Best Ideas Out of the “Group Brain” for Organizational Creativity
  • Creativity in Meetings
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