Individual creativity

8 important questions on Individual creativity

Berg (2016) - Classic roles in innovation

  1. Creators (variation)
  2. Managers (selection)
  3. Audiences (retention)

Berg (2016) - Why creators are bad at evaluating their own ideas?

  • Overestimate the extent to which the audience thinks and feels the same about their ideas
  • Focus on self-serving justifications for why their ideas are likely to succeed and ignore the rest
  • Identification and ownership drives them to dismiss negative feedback and escalate their commitment to their own ideas.

Harrison & Rouse (2015) - Feedback providers interaction moves

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Harrison & Rouse (2015) - Creative workers interaction moves

  • Backgrounding
  • Opening
  • Forecasting

Harrison & Rouse (2015) - Creative workers response moves

  • Excavations
  • Adjustments

Byron & Khazanchi (2012) - Rewards increase creative performance when there is

  • Criterion clarity
  • Perceived competence
  • Positive affect
  • Perceived volition

Byron & Khazanchi (2012) - Two opposing theories on effect of rewards on creativity

  1. Self determination
  2. Learned industriousness

Sijbom et al. (2018) - Why is feedback source variety important?

  • Yields sizeable amount of new information
  • Enables perceiving new connections between different viewpoints
  • Forces employees to combine different viewpoints in a unique way of reformulate existing knowledge and information
  • Each new piece of information allows a multiplicative series of new combinations

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