Creative Success in Teams
- 1st Edition - September 11, 2020
- Editors: Alexander S. McKay, Roni Reiter-Palmon, James C. Kaufman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 9 9 3 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 3 8 2 - 8
Today's workers spend upwards of 80% of their time collaborating and teams have become the fundamental unit within organizations. Creative Success in Teams summarizes for practit… Read more
Today's workers spend upwards of 80% of their time collaborating and teams have become the fundamental unit within organizations. Creative Success in Teams summarizes for practitioners and researchers what drives team creativity. Utilizing research from psychology, organizational behavior/management, business, and education, the book discusses how best to start, manage, and foster creativity in team environments, how to encourage participation and collaboration, what makes for the most creative team, and how best to lead and evaluate creative teams.
- Summarizes creativity research from psychology, education, and business
- Identifies how best to form a team for creative output
- Discusses how to foster team participation and collaboration
- Includes multicultural, interdisciplinary, and diverse teams
Researchers in social psychology and creativity
1. Managing the key processes for team innovationPaul B. Paulus, Lauren E. Coursey, and Jared B. Kenworthy
2. Creative success in collaboration: A sociocultural perspectiveVlad Petre Glaveanu, Ingunn Johanne Ness, and Ludvig Johan Torp Rasmussen
3. Leading for team creativity: Managing people and processesRoni Reiter-Palmon
4. Fostering creativity in interdisciplinary and intercultural teams: The importance of team building and team managementMin Tang and Joel T. Schmidt
5. How diversity promotes team creativity: Two bumpy roads to collective inspirationInga J. Hoever and Daan van Knippenberg
6. Don’t call it collaboration! Reframing creative success in teams from the perspective of participatory creativityEdward P. Clapp
7. Factors fostering creativity in start-up teamsJan Kratzer and Matthias Mrozewski
8. Mixed feelings: How shared and unshared affect impact team creative successKyle J. Emich and Li Lu
9. Who (and how many) made this? How crediting authorship affects creativity evaluationsColin M. Fisher, Janice Sanchez, James Berry, and Wen-Xin Xie
10. Collectively creating music—Creativity in rock bandsAlexander Pundt
11. Team creativity as a form of political action: The case of Liberate TateNatalia Korchagina and Charalampos Mainemelis
12. An interdisciplinary view on team creativity: Toward integration across fieldsAlexander S. McKay, Roni Reiter-Palmon, and James C. Kaufman
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- Published: September 11, 2020
- Language: English
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Alexander S. McKay
Alex McKay is an assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship in Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Business. He completed his PhD in I/O psychology at Penn State. His research focuses on creativity/innovation, the measurement of creativity, and social networks. He is on the editorial board of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Management and Entrepreneuriship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA USARR
Roni Reiter-Palmon
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Varner Professor of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology; Director of the I/O Psychology Graduate Program, University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), NE, USAJK
James C. Kaufman
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Education Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USARead Creative Success in Teams on ScienceDirect