The Degree of Relatedness of Four Creative Personality Factors with Ideational Fluency of Intermediate Grade Children.

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Comparing novelty of designs from biological-inspiration with those from brainstorming

This research aims to understand the significance of biological-analogies in fostering novelty by comparing biological-analogies with other design methods for idea generation. Among other design methods, brainstorming was chosen here as benchmark. Four studies were conducted to compare: (i) the levels of abstraction at which concepts were ideated using biological inspiration (represented using biocards) with that using traditional brainstorming; and (ii) the novelty of concepts produced by using these two design methods. Concepts produced in these studies were evaluated for levels of abstraction at which they were ideated, average novelty, and proportion of high-novelty concepts. Results suggest that concepts generated using biocards were ideated at higher abstraction levels than those using brainstorming, but neither were at the highest abstraction levels. The average novelty of concepts produced using biocards was found to be greater than that using brainstorming; however, no statistically significant difference was found in the proportion of high-novelty concepts. We suspect the lack of biological knowledge and cultural difference among the subjects involved in our studies as the two reasons behind the results. The results demonstrate that the design methods substantially influence the novelty of concepts generated, while indicating the need for better training in effective use of biological-analogies

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Meeting the Innovation Challenge: Leadership for Transformation and Growth

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Cleared for Takeoff? A Snapshot of Context for Change in a High-Risk Industry

Civil aviation is a high-risk industry where actors are experiencing increasing focus on economic performance, greater international competition, and growing safety threats that require continual organizational adjustments. In this article, we present the findings of a case study conducted within the Norwegian national air traffic management organization—Avinor, in preparation for a major reorganization initiative. In this study, we mapped the aggregated readiness and positioning for organizational change in the three main air traffic control centers in Norway using a mixed-method approach to person–environment Fit to help organizational leaders better understand each unit’s positioning for change, and more specifically, individual preferences for change styles. The results suggest that participants at the different air traffic control centers had developed distinctly different change preferences at both the group and individual levels, and that each was distinctly different from the other units in their positioning and readiness for change

Leadership Support for Innovation: The Intervening Role of the Climate for Creativity

This multi-method study examined the mediating effect of climate for creativity between leadership behavior and innovation at the work-unit (proximal) and organizational (distal) levels. The study was conducted with a sample of 180 engineers in the aerospace industry. Creative autonomy, idea-support, challenge and involvement, and conflict were identified as underlying constructs for the climate for creativity. The analysis revealed that climate for creativity complementarily mediates the relationship between leadership support for innovation and innovation, with idea-support as the most influential dimension. A distinction between work-unit innovation and organizational-level innovation showed that the conflict dimension was influential only at the more proximal work-unit innovation level. Qualitative analysis confirmed these dimensions and identified the underlying constructs for leadership behavior in relation to climate for creativity, for both helping and hindering innovation.status: publishe

Creative problem solving : the basic course /

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