PIECE Together

2019 ◽  
pp. 215-230
Author(s):  
Jack A. Goncalo ◽  
Joshua H. Katz ◽  
Lillien M. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Creative Collaboration ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Social Sanctions ◽  
Behavioral Mechanisms

Norms regulate and direct behavior in groups, but the role that norms play in the creative process has been controversial. This chapter develops a theoretical perspective in which norms are tools that can be leveraged to facilitate creativity in teams. It begins by identifying a set of five key behaviors that support creative collaboration—the PIECE(s) of team creativity—Participation, Independence, Elaboration, Communication, and Exploration. It then identifies specific norms that can encourage the emergence of each of the five critical behaviors, the conditions that make these norms salient, and the underlying psychological and behavioral mechanisms through which norms impact creativity. It also reviews recent and growing evidence suggesting that strengthening creativity-relevant norms with the threat of overt social sanctions can encourage the emergence of behavior appropriate to the task of being creative and thus facilitate, rather than thwart, creative collaboration. Finally, it concludes with suggestions for future research on norms in creative work groups.

Team creativity

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 590-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Cirella ◽  
Giovanni Radaelli ◽  
Abraham B. (Rami) Shani
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Team Functioning ◽  
High Level

Purpose – This study aims at narrowing a high level of fragmentation in the knowledge on the topic of team creativity (TC) that plays a fundamental role in enhancing an organization's delivery systems and market position by mapping available knowledge within a proposed framework. Although there is a wealth of knowledge on the topic, this fragmentation as revealed by past research limits the comprehensive understanding of the subject. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review was used to gather evidence about the key concepts in the fields of management, organization and innovation. This evidence is mapped against the backdrop of a complex adaptive perspective, as creativity is perceived as the product of micro-social units within the context of macro-social systems. Findings – The great number of concepts found in literature are organized into a framework that distinguishes relevant inputs that can affect team functioning; relevant mediators for TC; and TC outcomes. The framework is reviewed and discussed within the context of the social systems in which the team is embedded. Originality/value – TC is one of the most fertile research streams within the research field of innovation, and yet it suffers from a fragmentation that limits a deeper level of understanding and the advancement of actionable knowledge from taking place. An integrative theoretical perspective of micro- and macro-social systems gives researchers new insights into the interconnection between the numerous findings already found in the literature and gives a clear direction for future research.

Is Cannabis Tourism Deviant? A Theoretical Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianyu Ying ◽  
Jun Wen ◽  
Hairong Shan
Keyword(s):  
Moral Identity ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
Future Research Directions

With the growth of cannabis tourism, destinations such as the Netherlands have begun to offer cannabis-related products and services to visitors, including tourists from countries where all drugs are strictly prohibited. Yet limited research has sought to understand cannabis-oriented tourists' efforts to neutralize deviant connotations, namely by justifying or rationalizing misbehavior, when deciding to participate in cannabis tourism. This research note proposes a framework of deviant consumption behavior (DCB) constructed of geographic shifting, self-identity shifting, and moral identity shifting from the perspective of cannabis-oriented tourists to delineate tourists' decision-making process around engaging in deviant behaviors. The proposed framework suggests that previously developed DCB frameworks in the marketing and consumer behavior literature should be adapted for use in outbound tourism research. This research note also highlights areas for debate and investigation regarding cannabis tourists' deviant behavior. Future research directions are provided based on the proposed framework as it applies to deviant tourism research.

Antecedents and Consequences of Gossip in Work Groups

2019 ◽  
pp. 416-434
Author(s):  
Bianca Beersma ◽  
Gerben A. van Kleef ◽  
Maria T. M. Dijkstra
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Group Effectiveness ◽  
Interpersonal Aggression ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

This chapter provides an overview of the antecedents and consequences of gossip in work groups. First, the chapter reviews the different motives for gossip in work groups (i.e., bonding, entertainment, emotional venting, information exchange, maintenance of group norms/social order, and interpersonal aggression) and links each motive to psychological theory. Second, the chapter reviews the different types of influence that gossip can have on various indicators of group effectiveness. Reflecting on the motives underlying gossip in work groups, as well as on its outcomes, it argues that future research should start integrating the diverse insights provided by earlier research on both gossip motives and outcomes, and it provides a number of suggestions for doing so.

Gifted Classroom Environments and the Creative Process: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 016235322110014
Author(s):  
Lindsay Ellis Lee ◽  
Melanie S. Meyer ◽  
Kacey Crutchfield
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Classroom Culture ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Process Skills ◽  
Classroom Environments ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
K 12

As the expectations for including creativity in K–12 education continually grow, creative process skills equip students with thinking strategies to generate and evaluate ideas. This systematic review explored existing research on elementary and secondary gifted classroom environments that promote creative process skills. A database search yielded peer-reviewed literature, empirical and practitioner-focused, for systematic evaluation. A critical examination of literature published from 2011 to 2019 identified characteristics of educational environments that foster creative processes and highlighted key themes, including integrating creative process skills, adaptive environments, reflective classroom culture, and challenges to implementation. Implications for classroom application and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Compassion Fatigue: A Nurse’s Primer

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Lombardo ◽  
Caryl Eyre
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Workplace Environment

Most nurses enter the field of nursing with the intent to help others and provide empathetic care for patients with critical physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs. Empathic and caring nurses, however, can become victims of the continuing stress of meeting the often overwhelming needs of patients and their families, resulting in compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue affects not only the nurse in terms of job satisfaction and emotional and physical health, but also the workplace environment by decreasing productivity and increasing turnover. We begin this article with a case study of a reactive nurse who did not seek help for her continuing stress. This is followed by a review of Watson’s theoretical perspective related to compassion fatigue. Next we delineate symptoms of, and describe interventions for addressing compassion fatigue. We conclude by presenting a case study of a proactive nurse who avoided developing compassion fatigue and a discussion of future research needed to better prevent and ameliorate compassion fatigue.

scholarly journals Being a Small State: Discussion on the Role of Size

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
Justinas Lingevičius
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Small States ◽  
Small State

This paper discusses theoretical debates regarding small states and their foreign policy and also argues that research should include more analysis of small states’ identities and the dominant meanings related to being a small state. Using poststructuralistic theoretical perspective and discourse analysis, two empirical cases – Lithuania and New Zealand – are analysed with attention paid to the meanings of smallness and the ways these meanings are constructed. Empirical analysis follows with suggestions for how future research of small states could be improved.

scholarly journals Experimentation or projectification of urban change? A critical appraisal and three steps forward

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Torrens ◽  
Timo von Wirth
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Transformation Mechanism ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Primary Transformation

AbstractUrban experimentation has proliferated in recent years as a response to sustainability challenges and renewed pressures on urban governance. In many European cities, diverse and rapidly changing experimental forms (e.g. urban living laboratories, pilots, trials, experimental districts) are becoming commonplace, addressing ambitious goals for smartness, circularity, and liveability. Academically, there is a growing concern for moving beyond the focus on individual experiments and the insistence on upscaling their primary transformation mechanism. However, the phenomena of ‘projectification’ – whereby project-based forms of organising have become ubiquitous, shaping expectations about experimentation – is increasingly perceived as a barrier. Nevertheless, how specifically experimentation and projectification intersect remains unclear. Our theoretical perspective examines how the widespread tendency towards projectification shapes urban experimentation and the potential implications for urban transformations. It problematises the current wave of experimentation and how it contributes to the projectification of urban change processes. We present three steps to redress this issue and indicate directions for future research.

scholarly journals SOCIAL ENGINEERING AS A CREATIVE PROCESS

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Tetiana Koliada ◽  
Nazarii Koliada
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Promising Area

The article considers the essence of the concepts «project», «design», «social project», «social design». Social design is considered a creative process of social reality led by a man. It has been specified that all kinds of social formations cannot be created and realized without a person, his/her initiative creative work, one of the results of which is social design.  The presence of social projects in society testifies to its maturity and deeper perception and understanding of reality, penetration into the society of the idea that everyone is responsible for the fate of their land, people and that it is impossible to build a comfortable life detached from what is happening around. Social projects are created by socially active, creative people for the development and progress of their country. Thus, the subject of social design can be both one person and a group of people (organizations, teams, social institutions, etc.). It is established that any social grouping is impossible to imagine without a person, his/her active public position and creative work, one of the results of which is social design. A creative person as a social being based on social connections and interactions changes the future for the better, creating micro-and macro-groups, associations, and later communities. Social design, despite the huge typology, originates from the awareness and development of innovations in social work. A promising area of further research in this aspect is the features of social design as an effective means of solving social problems in the context of the development of modern social work. It is noted that social design is aimed at all types of human activities, but only with an innovative view and a systematic creative approach is the possible optimal design of social phenomena and processes. The existing approaches to the classification of social projects are considered, the features of social projects are defined and generalized: goal setting, innovative, time, territorial, socially determined, social-institutional, resource, organizational, social-informational.

scholarly journals Empowering leadership and team creativity: understanding the direct-indirect path

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 242-254
Author(s):  
Ahmad Adeel ◽  
Samreen Batool ◽  
Rizwan Ali
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Potential ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Indirect Path ◽  
Team Empowerment

This study investigated the relationship between empowering leadership and team creativity by integrating the theory of group behavior with componential theory of creativity. For this study, data was collected from two sources (343 Subordinates, 67 Supervisors) by temporally dividing data collection process into two points in time for independent, dependent, and mediating variables from employees of a bank operating in Pakistan. Random coefficient analysis technique was used with Mplus 7.0 to analyze nested data for preliminary analysis and analysis of mediation and indirect effects. Mediation was analyzed using the indirect effect of random models and further confirmed the confidence using bootstrapping procedure. Through this study, the researchers tried to explore the inconsistent relationship between empowering leadership behavior and team creativity. It was found that empowering leadership behavior affects the team level creativity of employees directly and indirectly through the mediation of team learning behavior and team psychological empowerment as team process and team emergent states respectively. The results indicated that empowering leadership enhances the learning potential of teams and team empowerment perception which in turn enhances team level creativity. Further research findings, implications, and future research directions also discussed in this research.

Engagement platforms in the sharing economy

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph F. Breidbach ◽  
Roderick J. Brodie
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Service Ecosystem

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and delineate research directions that guide future empirical studies exploring how engagement platforms facilitate value co-creation and actor engagement in the context of the sharing economy. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt a midrange theorizing approach with service-dominant logic as the integrating meta-theoretical perspective to develop a theoretical framework about service platforms, engagement platforms, and actor engagement in information communication technology (ICT) mediated environments. The authors then contextualize the framework for the sharing economy. Findings The authors introduce 20 unique research questions to guide future studies related to service ecosystems, engagement platforms, and actor engagement practices in the context of the sharing economy. Research limitations/implications The sharing economy is an emerging phenomenon that is driven by the development and proliferation of engagement platforms. The engagement platform concept therefore provides a novel perspective for exploration of how ICT can be utilized to facilitate value co-creation and engagement amongst interdependent economic actors in a service ecosystem. Practical implications The purpose of this paper is to guide future academic research, rather than managerial practice. Future research based on the framework can help guide decision-makers to implement and use engagement platforms more effectively. Originality/value This paper offers new insight into the important intersection of ICT and service research, and guides future studies exploring the role of engagement platforms in the context of the sharing economy.

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