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.

About the Author
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.

Reviews
This remarkable text makes it all look easy by presenting a complex subject with clarity and expertise so that the reader comes away with a greater understanding of the subject...Highly recommended. * CHOICE *



Book Information
ISBN 9780190222093
Author Roni Reiter-Palmon
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 658g
Dimensions(mm) 157mm * 239mm * 36mm