Team Creativity and Innovation

For the past two decades, creativity and innovation have been viewed by researchers as critical to organizational success and survival. Understanding the factors that facilitate or inhibit creativity and innovation at the individual level has been the focus of much of the research in this area. However, while earlier work on teams considered the working dynamics of the group as a context variable with individual creativity the outcome, research now emphasizes group creativity as the intended, desired outcome. This shift in thought has occurred because many of the problems routinely facing organizations are complex and cannot be solved by a single individual at the helm. Edited by Roni Reiter-Palmon, Team Creativity and Innovation provides readers with a state-of-the-art review of the major concepts and current research related to the demonstrable benefits of team creativity and innovation. In this volume, Reiter-Palmon and contributors explore such topics as team collaboration and communication, trust and psychological safety, team diversity, social networks, conflict, organizational learning, and more as a way to introduce readers to the issues that matter most in today's modern, forward-thinking workplace.

Roni Reiter-Palmon is the Isaacson Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Director of Innovation at the Center for Collaboration Science at the University of Nebraska - Omaha.

Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Team Creativity and Innovation: Importance and Directions Roni Reiter-Palmon and Mackenzie Harms Chapter 2: Overview of Team Creativity and Innovation Paul B. Paulus and Jared B. Kenworthy Part II: Team Processes Chapter 3: Team Diversity and Team Creativity: A Categorization-Elaboration Perspective Daan van Knippenberg and Inga J. Hoever Chapter 4: Team Creativity: Cognitive Processes Underlying Problem-Solving Mackenzie Harms, Victoria Kennel, and Roni Reiter-Palmon Chapter 5: Social Processes and Team Creativity: Locating Collective Creativity in Team Interactions Sarah Harvey and Chia-yu Kou Part III: Organizational Factors and Levels Chapter 6: Leader Impacts on Creative Teams: Direction, Engagement, and Sales Michael D. Mumford, Tyler Mulhearn, Logan L. Watts, Logan M. Steele, and Tristan McIntosh Chapter 7: 20 Years Later: Organizational Context for Team Creativity Christina E. Shalley, Robert C. Lichtfield, and Lucy L. Gilson Chapter 8: A Multi-level Model of Collaboration and Creativity Michael Beyerlein, Crystal Han, and Ambika Prasad Chapter 9: Creativity and Innovation in Multiteam Systems Stephen J. Zaccaro, Laura S. Fletcher, and Leslie A. DeChurch Part IV: Applications Chapter 10: Selection and Team Creativity: Meeting Unique Challenges Through Diversity and Flexibility Samuel T. Hunter, Brett H. Neely, and Melissa B. Gutworth Chapter 11: Training Creativity in Teams Shannon L. Marlow, Christina N. Lacerenza, Amanda L. Woods, and Eduardo Salas Chapter 12: Team Innovation in Healthcare Victoria Kennel, Katherine Jones, and Roni Reiter-Palmon Chapter 13: Destruction through Collaboration: How Terrorists Work Together Toward Malevolent Innovation Gina Scott Ligon, Douglas C. Derrick, and Mackenzie Harms