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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Team creativity"”.
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Newcomer Entry and Team Creativity: The Roles of Coworkers, Leaders, and Newcomers
This dissertation examines newcomer entry into teams and team creativity in a field setting. Unique information and perspectives brought by newcomers have been proposed to provide “fresh blood” for teams, which can benefit team creativity. However, the addition of newcomers can also disrupt the …
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Investigations of Student and Team Creativity on an Introductory Engineering Design Project
… research focused on assessment of student creativity in engineering studies is lacking. Creativity by definition encompasses both novelty and value and has been approached through investigations of person, product, process and environment. Contemporary socio-cultural theories of creativity …
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How does creativity occur in teams? An empirical test
Organizations benefit when workteams produce more rather than less creativity. What actions in organizations help this to occur - on the part of team leaders and team members? This is the primary question that my dissertation aims to answer. More specifically, I hypothesize that team leaders' …
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Team creative performance: exploring the relationship between team diversity and conflict affecting the creative productivity of interior design student teams
… main variables and their possible effects on team creative productivity: team learning style diversity, student self-awareness, task conflict, process conflict, and relationship conflict. The case study incorporates 40 interior design students in teams of four, developing a design for a …
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A multilevel investigation of the effect of task conflict on creative performance: focusing on the role of information sharing and team trust
… to understand the effect of task conflict on creativity, emphasizing the role of critical contingencies. For a team-level phenomenon, I argue that teams can harvest the benefits of task conflict when they engage in information and knowledge sharing activities and maintain high levels of trust …
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Creative thinking in engineering education : lessons from students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… to identify factors that influence student creativity in the classroom and retention and use of creative thinking skills beyond the classroom. Student reflections are used to tie theories of creativity with educational theory on student learning. Common themes discussed by students in …
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How Diversity Affects Teams
This dissertation examines team diversity effects with a focus on their management. Against the background of recent significant societal challenges, diverse teams are often seen as crucial for fostering innovation, creativity, and decision quality. However, team diversity does not naturally …
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The Relationship of Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: Finding the Missing Link
… the relationship between ethnic diversity and team performance in the context of Nigerian organisations. Individual experiences and actual performance across different ethnic groups were analysed and compared. The research methodology in this study was qualitative, and semi-structured …
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Towards measuring attention allocation in model-based engineering teamwork
… dynamic could be in effect at the level of teams and teams of teams within engineering organizations. Engineering teams are tasked with solving problems of multidisciplinary nature with multiple stakeholder constraints. For better performance, teams need to be aware of multiple constraints …