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