Old wine in a new bottle: Impact of membership change on group creativity

2005 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoon-Seok Choi ◽  
Leigh Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Group Creativity ◽  
Membership Change

scholarly journals Membership change, idea generation, and group creativity: A motivated information processing perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843022199945
Author(s):  
Suqing Wu ◽  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Yingjie Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Membership Change ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Processing Theory ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Motivated Information Processing ◽  
Radical Ideas

Membership change has been found to stimulate collective idea generation but to not always benefit group creativity—the generation of final outcomes that are novel and useful. Based on motivated information processing theory, we propose that membership change challenges group members to generate more ideas, but that this only contributes to group creativity when members have high levels of prosocial motivation and are willing to process and integrate each other’s ideas. In a laboratory study of 56 student groups, we found that incremental, but not radical, idea generation mediated the positive effect of membership change on group creativity, and only when group members were prosocially motivated. The present study points to different roles of incremental versus radical ideas and underscores the importance of accounting for prosocial motivation in groups for reaping the benefits of membership change in relation to group creativity.

The effects of group diversity and organizational support on group creativity

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 1551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinghuan ZHANG ◽  
Xin LIU ◽  
Feifei REN ◽  
Xiangwei SUN ◽  
Qi YU
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Group Diversity

Diversity and Group Creativity

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-49
Author(s):  
Paul B. Paulus ◽  
Karen I. van der Zee ◽  
Jared B. Kenworthy
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Elaboration Model ◽  
State Of The Science

It is often presumed that diversity of group members will enhance group creativity. However, the evidence for this has been mixed. This chapter summarizes the state of the science in this area and provides an integrative framework based on the categorization elaboration model of van Knippenberg and colleagues. It focuses on the factors that influence the expression of diverse perspectives, attention to such expressions, the elaboration of the shared ideas, and how these lead to creative outcomes. It evaluates the importance of identity factors in this process and discusses the potential impact on both divergent and convergent creativity. It notes some of the gaps in the literature and suggests future directions.

Design and Group Creativity

2019 ◽  
pp. 305-318
Author(s):  
Arthur B. Markman ◽  
Jonathan Cagan
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
End Products ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Do So

Design communities in engineering and other disciplines have a practical reason for caring about group creativity. People employed in these areas have to generate creative solutions routinely, and they often must do so in a group. As a result, research in these areas has focused on processes to improve group creativity. This chapter explores techniques for generating problem statements and solutions in groups that have emerged from this literature. It also examines computer-based methods of problem solving that groups can use to enhance the ideas that arise from these group processes. This work has expanded the range of elements explored in studies of group creativity. Although theoretical studies of creativity can be useful in uncovering underlying mental processes, design development requires useful end products. The focus of this research on techniques that enhance creativity in design provides an opportunity to link this literature with the broader literature on individual and group creativity.

scholarly journals Novelty and coherence in group creative processes

Psihologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-229
Author(s):  
Irena Ristic ◽  
Bojana Skorc ◽  
Tijana Mandic
Keyword(s):  
Group Processes ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Assessment Technique ◽  
Creative Achievement ◽  
Consensual Assessment Technique ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
High Level

A research of triadic creative processes was conducted based on the assumption that novelty and coherence are basic dimensions of group creativity, variations of which can explain differences in creative achievement. In a workshop, 153 students were divided in triads and created 51 chain-stories. Following the standards of Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT), eight independent judges assessed creativity, novelty and coherence in the integral stories. The most representative stories for low, middle and high creativity, were selected and subjected to further analysis. The results show that development of group creativity is conditioned by high level of novelty, and by balanced ratio of novelty and coherence that enable integration of unique ideas in group processes. Symmetrical contribution of members was not confirmed as one of the conditions, suggesting that group creativity is an emerging phenomenon, relying on relations rather than individual contributions of participants.

Group Creativity

2011 ◽  
pp. 575-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.B. Paulus ◽  
H. Coskun
Keyword(s):  
Group Creativity
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