Team Creativity and Innovation

Edited by Roni Reiter-Palmon

Provides a state-of-the-art review of the major concepts, current research, and practice issues related to team creativity and innovation in the workforce
Showcases common problems faced in the workplace and offers creative and innovative solutions
Covers such timely topics as healthcare and team creativity in terrorist groups

Team Creativity and Innovation

Edited by Roni Reiter-Palmon

Description

For the past two decades, creativity and innovation have been viewed by researchers as critical to organizational success and survival. Understanding the factors that facilitate or inhibit creativity and innovation at the individual level has been the focus of much of the research in this area. However, while earlier work on teams considered the working dynamics of the group as a context variable with individual creativity the outcome, research now emphasizes group creativity as the intended, desired outcome. This shift in thought has occurred because many of the problems routinely facing organizations are complex and cannot be solved by a single individual at the helm.

Edited by Roni Reiter-Palmon, Team Creativity and Innovation provides readers with a state-of-the-art review of the major concepts and current research related to the demonstrable benefits of team creativity and innovation. In this volume, Reiter-Palmon and contributors explore such topics as team collaboration and communication, trust and psychological safety, team diversity, social networks, conflict, organizational learning, and more as a way to introduce readers to the issues that matter most in today's modern, forward-thinking workplace.

Team Creativity and Innovation

Edited by Roni Reiter-Palmon

Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Team Creativity and Innovation: Importance and Directions
Roni Reiter-Palmon and Mackenzie Harms
Chapter 2: Overview of Team Creativity and Innovation
Paul B. Paulus and Jared B. Kenworthy
Part II: Team Processes
Chapter 3: Team Diversity and Team Creativity: A Categorization-Elaboration Perspective
Daan van Knippenberg and Inga J. Hoever
Chapter 4: Team Creativity: Cognitive Processes Underlying Problem-Solving
Mackenzie Harms, Victoria Kennel, and Roni Reiter-Palmon
Chapter 5: Social Processes and Team Creativity: Locating Collective Creativity in Team Interactions
Sarah Harvey and Chia-yu Kou
Part III: Organizational Factors and Levels
Chapter 6: Leader Impacts on Creative Teams: Direction, Engagement, and Sales
Michael D. Mumford, Tyler Mulhearn, Logan L. Watts, Logan M. Steele, and Tristan McIntosh
Chapter 7: 20 Years Later: Organizational Context for Team Creativity
Christina E. Shalley, Robert C. Lichtfield, and Lucy L. Gilson
Chapter 8: A Multi-level Model of Collaboration and Creativity
Michael Beyerlein, Crystal Han, and Ambika Prasad
Chapter 9: Creativity and Innovation in Multiteam Systems
Stephen J. Zaccaro, Laura S. Fletcher, and Leslie A. DeChurch
Part IV: Applications
Chapter 10: Selection and Team Creativity: Meeting Unique Challenges Through Diversity and Flexibility
Samuel T. Hunter, Brett H. Neely, and Melissa B. Gutworth
Chapter 11: Training Creativity in Teams
Shannon L. Marlow, Christina N. Lacerenza, Amanda L. Woods, and Eduardo Salas
Chapter 12: Team Innovation in Healthcare
Victoria Kennel, Katherine Jones, and Roni Reiter-Palmon
Chapter 13: Destruction through Collaboration: How Terrorists Work Together Toward Malevolent Innovation
Gina Scott Ligon, Douglas C. Derrick, and Mackenzie Harms

Team Creativity and Innovation

Edited by Roni Reiter-Palmon

Author Information

Edited by Roni Reiter-Palmon, Isaacson Professor of I/O Psychology, Director of Innovation, Center for Collaboration Science, University of Nebraska - Omaha

Roni Reiter-Palmon is the Isaacson Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Director of Innovation at the Center for Collaboration Science at the University of Nebraska - Omaha.

Contributors:

Michael Beyerlein
Department of Education and Human Development
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Leslie A. DeChurch
School of Psychology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Douglas C. Derrick
College of Information Science & Technology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE

Laura S. Fletcher
Department of Psychology
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

Lucy L. Gilson
School of Business
The University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Melissa B. Gutworth
Department of Psychology
Penn State University
State College, PA

Crystal Han
Department of Education and Human Development
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Mackenzie Harms
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE

Sarah Harvey
UCL School of Management
University College London
London, UK

Inga J. Hoever
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Samuel T. Hunter
Department of Psychology
Penn State University
State College, PA

Katherine Jones
College of Allied Health Professions
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE

Victoria Kennel
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE;
College of Allied Health Professions
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE

Jared B. Kenworthy
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX

Chia-yu Kou
Quinn School of Business
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland

Christina N. Lacerenza
Department of Psychology
Rice University
Houston, TX

Robert C. Litchfield
Department of Economics and Business
Washington & Jefferson University
Washington, PA

Shannon L. Marlow
Department of Psychology
Rice University
Houston, TX

Tristan McIntosh
Department of Psychology
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK

Tyler Mulhearn
Department of Psychology
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK

Michael D. Mumford
Department of Psychology
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK

Brett H. Neely
Department of Psychology
Penn State University
State College, PA

Paul B. Paulus
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX

Roni Reiter-Palmon
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE

Ambika Prasad
Freeman School of Business
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA

Eduardo Salas
Department of Psychology
Rice University
Houston, TX

Gina Scott Ligon
College of Business Administration
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE

Christina E. Shalley
Scheller College of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Logan M. Steele
Department of Psychology
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK

Daan van Knippenberg
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Logan L. Watts
Department of Psychology
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK

Amanda L. Woods
Department of Psychology
Rice University
Houston, TX

Stephen J. Zaccaro
Department of Psychology
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

Team Creativity and Innovation

Edited by Roni Reiter-Palmon

Reviews and Awards

"This remarkable text makes it all look easy by presenting a complex subject with clarity and expertise so that the reader comes away with a greater understanding of the subject...Highly recommended." - CHOICE