Organizations routinely rely on work groups for creative solutions to the problems they face. This is because solving difficult problems is often assumed to require the talents and knowledge of multiple people working together. However, much research has shown over the years that groups frequently experience dysfunction when trying to collaborate and generate creative solutions. Organizational researchers have theorized that analogical reasoning may play an important role in promoting collective creativity, but these claims are for the most part untested in the literature. In this dissertation, I attempt to answer two questions. First, does analogical reasoning provide some functional benefits for groups solving creative problems? Second, does analogical reasoning give rise to synergistic effects when creative groups collaborate during ideation and problem-solving? I assessed these questions using a laboratory study designed to find the effects of analogical reasoning in interacting and non-interacting groups, and to test for potential synergistic effects of analogical reasoning as a group-level strategy for generating creative problem solutions. Findings of the study suggest that analogical reasoning may provide some benefits for creative group outputs, and it may also create synergistic effects for creative groups. / text

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war Schülerskreativitäts besonderheiten und deren Verbindung mit Selbstbewertung festzustellen. Um Kreativität der Schüler zu bestimmen, wurde Urbanas und Jellenas (1998) Methodik des kreativen Denkens verwendet. Für die Selbstbewertung der Schüler wurde die Methodik der Selbstbewertung von A. Petrulytė benutzt. An der Untersuchung haben 205 Schüler teilgenommen: 101 Mädchen und 104 Jungen. Bei der Zusammenfassung der Resultate ist zu bestimmen, dass bei dem Kreativitätsvergleich nach Urbanas und Jellenas Methodik in zwei Schüleraltersgruppen festgestellt wurde, dass Ergebnisse des kreativen Denkens beim Malentest bei den alteren 18-19 Jahre alt Schülern besser (x=5,80) sind als bei den jungeren 14-15 Jahre alt (x=5,48). Aber Ergebnisse des T-test zeigen, dass dieser Unterschied vein statistisch gesehen nicht wichtig ist (t=-0,936, df=98, p=0,352). Beim Geschlechtvergleich nach Urbanas und Jellenas Methodik wurde klar, dass Mädchen im Malentest kreativer (x=5,94) als Jungen (x=5,31) sind, aber dieser Unterschied statistich gesehen ist nicht wichtig (t=-1,864, df=98, p=0,065). Korelationsergebnisse zeigen, dass eine direkte Verbindung zwischen dem kreativen Malentest und Lernleistungen entsteht (r=0,461, p=0,000). Das heiβt, die Schüler, die besseren Notendurchschift haben, sind kreativer. Beim Vergleich der Ergebnisse nach Petrulytės Methodik (im Zussamenhang mit Geschlecht der Befragten) kann man behaupten, dass Mädchen (x=3,13) gröβere als... [to full text]

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This art-based research study will examine creativity and the creative process during the production of a cohesive body of work. The author’s auto-ethnographic reflections of her creative process were recorded, and analyzed. The artist/teacher/researcher will provide conclusions based on her art production and self-reflection.

This study was carried out in six preparatory schools in the city of El-Fayoum in Egypt. The sample of the study comprised 230 boys and girls who were in their second year of preparatory school (middle school), and 100 teachers. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between creativity and the locus of control. The research was also concerned with: (a) the relationship between creativity and intelligence; (b) the relationship between intelligence and the locus of control; (c) sex differences in both creativity and the locus of control; (d) the concept of the ideal pupil as held by the group of teachers. Creativity was measured by a creativity inventory and by the teachers' ratings of students' creative performance in Arabic and drawing. The following tests were given to the students: (1) the GIFFI I creativity inventory; (2) the Nowicki-Strickland locus of control scale; (3) the Pictorial Intelligence test. The teachers were requested to answer the following questionnaires: (1) the Ideal Pupil Check-list; (2) the creativity rating scale. The pilot study showed that these instruments were valid for use in this research. Five hypotheses were examined in the research. These were concerned with the relationships between creativity and internal locus of control, creativity and intelligence, and internal control and intelligence; and also with sex differences in creativity and locus of control, and Egyptian teachers' concept of the ideal pupil.The results confirmed the first and the fifth of these hypotheses. The other hypotheses were rejected by the data. These findings are in line with previous results relating to these areas of research. The findings of the present research are explained in the light of creative personality theory and in the light of socio-cultural factors which influence the development of creative behaviour. Finally, suggestions are made which may, it is hoped, help schools in Egypt to develop internal orientation and creativity in their pupils.

Vad händer om de ständiga förbättringarna tar slut? Förmågan att ständigt utvecklas och förändras har i vårt samhälle och inom den svenska industrin blivit en allt viktigare konkurrensfördel för att skapa framgångsrika organisationer. Marknadsförändringar förekommer numera i en alltmer progressiv takt och det framstår att organisationer med ett gott kreativt klimat förmår att skapa goda förutsättningar för att hantera omvärldens föränderlighet. Kärnan för industriella organisationer är ytterst att upprätthålla en accepterad produktionstakt och samtidigt skapa ett kreativt klimat som ger goda förutsättningar för att utveckling kan frodas. Det råder en enighet om att organisationer med ett gott kreativt klimat som ger medarbetare stöd, möjlighet och utrymme att omsätta idéer till verklig nytta, skapar goda förutsättningar för organisationers utvecklingsförmåga. Lösningen blir således organisationers interna kreativa klimat och hur förutsättningar för att förhålla sig utvecklingsorienterad skapas, i en alltmer föränderlig miljö, med en tro på den enskilda medarbetares förmåga att ständigt utvecklas. Organisationer har således mycket att vinna på att förstå och kontinuerligt mäta skillnaden mellan det rådande kreativa klimatet och det eftertraktade klimatet. Syftet med den här fallstudien är att mäta en svensk industris kreativa klimat och undersöka vilka hinder och möjligheter organisationens ledare och medarbetare upplever i utvecklingsarbetet.  Ett sekundärt syfte är att bidra till en ökad förståelse av förutsättningarna för en utvecklingsorienterad organisation i en industriell kontext genom att undersöka, utvärdera och analysera komplexiteten av utvecklingsarbetet. Studien visar en diskrepans i det kreativa klimatet mellan organisationens befintliga avdelningar och uppmuntrar till ytterligare forskning för att åskådliggöra de kausala relationerna.

Since the creation of the internet there has been a development towards a globalized community of people. With the potential for connectivity between people all over the world subcultures are inevitably created. One such subculture is eSports. Over the past decade eSports has seen a steady increase in popularity. Recently, partly as a result of the streaming revolution, this increase has intensified and traditional media look to the internet for inspiration and help on what to do to evolve their business into the future. This paper looks to combine data from interviews conducted with people active and working in the eSports industry with theories and research in innovation, creativity, intelligence gathering and trendspotting with the goal of finding answers to What triggers innovation within the eSports industry? as well as provide suggestions for further research. The researchers suggest that eSports is a novel and unique area with high potential for new scientific developments within innovation and creativity as well as a varied field of other sciences. Culture and Open Innovation are, amongst others, suggested to be important factors for enabling change in the eSports industry.

This dissertation defends the need for a renewed conception of nature as seen through the lens of an artist. By exploring how the relationship between art and nature has been conceived by 19th and 20th century European and Japanese philosophers (including Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Nishida, and Watsuji), I offer a way of thinking about artistic expression that recognizes the active, expressive character of artistic media and, more broadly, nature itself. Through an analysis of the embodied foundations of artistic creation, I develop a non-subjectivist account of expression that incorporates the climatic milieu. I maintain that the continuity between the embodied self and its life-world implies that the origin of creativity exceeds the will of the individual. This, in turn, implies that nature and the material on which art draws are expressive. According to this view, nature is not an indifferent realm of "mere" material and chemical processes distinct from the domain of culture and meaning. Rather, it is a creative climate from which the artist draws and to which the artist contributes. In conclusion, I maintain that this view has the potential to inform a more sustainable and ethically sound attitude towards the natural world.