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One of the most important issues that leaders must address is creating the right working environment for stimulating and sustaining creativity. This Technical Report provides insights into how a climate for change, innovation and creativity relates to...
Innovation and creativity as its prerequisite, are high priorities on the strategic agenda for those who lead, manage, and work in organizations. Meeting the innovation challenge requires taking a systemic approach – focusing on the people involved, the methods they are applying, the environment within which they are working, as well as the desired innovative results...
The Creativity Research Unit of CPSB launched a collaborative research project with Hans Akkermans during August of 2007. The aim of the project was to improve our understanding of the role leadership plays in creating a climate for innovation. We have been conducting research on the climate for innovation, creativity, and change for the past...
Creative Problem Solving version 6.1™ is a contemporary framework for managing change and meeting the innovation challenge.
Over the course of the past fifty years, many researchers and developers have presented a variety of different models of, or approaches to, creative problem solving. Work on these presentations has taken place in many different...
In the June, 1994 issue of this journal, Professor Magyari-Beck provided a critical review of creativity studies. This review was based on a general perspective that cultural paradigms have an influence on both the development...
Cognitive science has been defined as a contemporary field that tries to answer questions about the nature of knowledge, its development and deployment (Gardner, 1985). Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary inquiry...
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the rationale, methodology, implications and outcomes from a five-week European study tour designed to identify similarities and differences relevant to creative problem-solving...
This article reports results of a survey of 150 curriculum planners about their knowledge, attitudes and behavior with respect to the deliberate development of creative thinking and problem solving skills. Based on the findings...
By far, the most satisfying experiences I have had included the transformation of dreams into reality. Whether it was obtaining a college degree, improving our instructional unit in social studies, or committing to a life long...
If you were asked to name the inventors of the telephone, airplane or lightbulb, you would probably experience little difficulty in recalling the names of Bell, the Wright brothers or Edison. In contrast, many people experience...
As the need for people skilled in creative thinking and problem solving increases, so does the demand for leaders whose specialty is releasing the creative potential in people. These leaders might be teachers, trainers...
Many psychologists and philosophers have advanced “theories” of creativity. These theories vary widely in their scope and methods and we believe that today, none of them could be considered as providing comprehensive...
This article capsulizes my 30 years of continuos research into the deliberate development of creative ability...
This article presents a summary of research, development, and applications of Creative Problem Solving...
Management is increasingly concerned with responding to changing conditions and achieving higher levels of...
Brainstorming may be the best known tool for group idea generation and is widely taught in gifted and talent...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between VIEW: An Assessment of Problem Solving Style and the preference for learning and using of the specific tools, guidelines, stages, and components of creative...
The relationship between imagery and creativity was examined using a prediction from the theories of symbolic...
It is difficult, if not impossible, for me to present an unbiased account of the status of knowledge about...
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Abstract: Creative leadership incorporates the full spectrum of change and cognitive style, from innovative/exploratory to adaptive/developmental. Leadership literature and measures tend to describe...
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The purpose of this chapter is to lay out the creativity level-style distinction and to identify some of the productive implications of such a new dimension for creativity research and practice. The distinction...
VIEW (Selby, Treffinger, & Isaksen, 2002) is a new instrument for assessing problem solving style, for use with individuals from ages 11 through adult. We describe the theoretical and research foundations for the instrument...
The issue of the “glass ceiling” effect on gender differences in upper level management was addressed. Three different explanations of the gender difference in participating at upper level management were tested, and...
Kirton has asserted that his measure of creative style, Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory, is discrete or orthogonal to level measures of creativity. This study used a well-established creative level measure, the Torrance Tests of...
The creativity level-style distinction is a fairly recent development within the domain of creativity research. As such, some researchers find it provocative and interesting. Others find it controversial, confusing or confounding...
This study investigated the relationship between psychological type, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®), and cognitive style as measured by the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI)....
Summary – In his 1986 analytic review of the first ten years of research on adaption-innovation theory, Mudd commented on the importance of continued research on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory. Suggestions pertinent to the present study....
The primary purpose of the studies was to examine the relationship between the Gregorc Style Delineator and Kirton’s adaptive-innovative distinction. The structure and internal consistency of the Style Delineator....
The realities of our changing world require todays learner to become skilled in group and independent endeavors ....
The purpose of this paper is to share some preliminary findings of research into the relationship of two distinct, yet complementary assessment approaches. One of these approaches is the assessment of creative style...
This article reports the results of two studies conducted to examine the ability of the Situational Outlook Questionnaire (SOQ) to effectively discern climates that either encourage or discourage creativity and the ability...
The foundations of a multidimensional measure designed to assess creativity and change are presented. The reliability and construct validity of the Situational Outlook Questionnaire were tested using a sample of 1111 subjects...
The purpose of this article is to outline the important of considering the context within the general system of change. Since context includes a number of key areas, the next section will differentiate culture and climate as two key concepts...
Isaksen and Kaufmann (1990) conducted an exploratory study into the relationship between cognitive style and individual perceptions of creative climate. Clapp and Kirton (1994) raised questions regarding the theoretical constructs and methodology used in this study...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between an individual’s perceptions of the degree of support for their personal creativity and the climate for creativity and change where they work. The study utilized a modified version...
This article reports the results of a study conducted to examine the ability of the Situational Outlook Questionnaire (SOQ) to effectively discern climates that either encourage or discourage creativity and the ability to initiate change in a team setting...
Organizations, and the leaders and teams within them, face ever increasing challenges to change to compete and deal with escalating complexity...
Creativity is not a term that simply describes a category or kind of person. Rather, creativity has been viewed by many as a multi-faceted phenomenon which results in the production of new and useful ideas. Creative performance, therefore, can be viewed...
Creativity is a subject with a wide variety of implications for educational practices. This paper will present some historical background relating to the educational contexts of creativity as well as a description of the multi-faceted...
Despite many difficult obstacles, creativity and innovation are becoming important concepts for individuals, groups and organizations (Charnes & Cooper, 1984; Isaksen, 1987; and Kuhn, 1985). The actual study of creativity, from a psychological perspective...
The increasing levels of competition for shrinking global resources (and for methods which increase the productive outcomes from these resources), combined with larger amounts of complexity and change, foster the importance of the emerging line...
The purpose of this article is to share a preliminary approach to the planning of future creativity research. The developers of the Research Planning Matrix (RPM)1 represent diverse organizations and centers for the study of creativity...
I discuss the topic of creativity with considerable hesitation, for it represents an area in which psychologists...
As we have seen the empirical research has shed some light on each of the major facets of creativity-the creative...
