Team creativity
15 important questions on Team creativity
Choi & Thompson (2015) - Positive effects of membership change:
- Newcomers replace ineffective oldtimers
- Improves task focus
- Diversifies the group's knowledge base
- Elicits social processes since change agents/dissenting minorities stimulate majority to engage in divergent thinking
Choi & Thompson (2015) - Negative effects of membership change:
- Newcomers lack task-relevant skills
- Interfers with group routines
- Disrupts the development of transactive/collective memory systems
- Disrupts the development of shared mental models
Mannix & Neale (2005) - Why diversity is relevant for organizations?
- Organizations have become more heterogeneous
- Have become less hierarchical
- Are using more (project) teams
- Higher grades + faster learning
- Never study anything twice
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Mannix & Neale (2005) - Mediating effects of diversity
- Conflict
- Social integration
- Cohesion
- Communication
Mannix & Neale (2005) - Process effect of diversity
- Information-processing approach theory
- Similarity-attraction theory
- Self categorization/social identity theory
Sutton & Hargadon (1996) - Osborn's brainstorming rules
- Don't criticize
- Quantity is wanted
- Combine and improve suggested ideas
- Say all ideas that come to mind, no matter how wilde
Sutton & Hargadon (1996) - Six ways to kill a brainstorm
- The boss gets to speak first
- Everybody gets a turn
- Experts only
- Do it off-site
- No silly stuff
- Write down everything
Sutton & Hargadon (1996) - Solutions for productivity loss
- First generating ideas individually
- Several rounds of interaction to refine and evaluate
Sutton & Hargadon (1996) - Most brainstorming research with participants who:
- Had no future or past task interdependence
- Had no future or past social relationships
- Didn't use the ideas generated
- Lacked pertinent technical expertise
- Lacked skills that complement other participants
- Lacked expertise in doing brainstorming
- Lacked expertise in leading brainstorming sessions
Sutton & Hargadon (1996) - Brainstorming benefits beyond idea generation:
- Supporting organizational memory
- Providing skill variety
- Supporting attitude of wisdom
- Creating status auctions
- Impressing clients
- Providing income
Harchadon & Bechky (2006) - Key concepts of collective creativity:
- Help seeking
- Help giving
- Reflective reframing
- Reinforcing
Harchadon & Bechky (2006) - Collective mind:
- Maintain order in the face of disruption
- The ends of the organization are clear
- Managing surprises by being preoccupied with failure and committed to the pursuit of the routine
Harchadon & Bechky (2006) - Collective creativity:
- Generate creative disruptions from the established order
- The ends of the organization are not clear
- How mindfulness pursues novelty out of routine
Catmull (2008) - Pixar's management principles in a nutshell:
- Get creative people
- Bet big on them
- Give enormous leeway and support
- Provide with an environment in which they can get honest feedback
Catmull (2008) - Why is Pixar so successful?
- Artistic resources and competences
- Technological resources and competences
- The building as a resource
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