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.
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.
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.
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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
