Collaborative Research: Creativity in Teams: Identifying the Role of Meetings in Fostering Effective Cognitive and Social Processes in Teams

协作研究：团队创造力：确定会议在促进团队有效认知和社交过程中的作用

• 批准号: 1951300
• 负责人: Roni Reiter-Palmon
• 金额: $ 29.51万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska at Omaha
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1951300&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Creativity; Teams; Identifying

In the last two decades, interest in creativity and innovation has grown tremendously. Creativity and innovation have been suggested as important for organizational performance. In addition, the use of teams in organizations is on the rise. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the interrelationships between social and cognitive processes in team meetings for generating a creative idea or product. The project will assess the team cognitive process sequences that effectively result in more creative ideas, the effect of team dynamics on these cognitive processes, and how cognitive and social processes interact to produce creative outcomes. We will further investigate whether an intervention to facilitate team creativity will improve creativity and the effect it has on both cognitive and social processes.To address these aims, two studies will be conducted. The first study will be a laboratory study, where teams will be ad-hoc, one-time meetings. These will be short-term teams that have no previous interaction. The laboratory conditions will allow for audio and video recording of the team interactions, which facilitates detailed and nuanced analysis of both cognitive and social processes. The laboratory study will also allow us to test an intervention using debriefs to facilitate reflection that fosters team reflexivity. Building on the findings from this initial study, our second study will recruit semester-long undergraduate teams in engineering design courses at University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL) and Clemson. These teams work to develop a product or idea based on real client demands, for a semester long project. As a result, these teams will provide an opportunity to understand ongoing interaction throughout a 3 to 4 month period. The study of these teams will allow us to understand dynamics that have consequences associated with teamwork and creative processes over time. This project is jointly funded by the Science of Organizations program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在过去的二十年中，人们对创造力和创新的兴趣越来越大。已经提出创造力和创新对于组织绩效至关重要。此外，在组织中使用团队的使用正在上升。这项研究的目的是评估团队会议中社会和认知过程之间的相互关系，以产生创意或产品。该项目将评估团队认知过程序列，这些过程有效地导致更多创意，团队动态对这些认知过程的影响以及认知和社会过程如何相互作用以产生创造性的结果。我们将进一步调查促进团队创造力的干预措施是否会改善创造力及其对认知过程和社会过程的影响。要解决这些目标，将进行两项研究。第一项研究将是一项实验室研究，团队将举行临时会议。这些将是没有以前互动的短期团队。实验室条件将允许团队互动的音频和视频记录，这有助于对认知和社会过程的详细和细微分析。这项实验室研究还将使我们能够使用汇报来测试干预措施，以促进促进团队反思性的反思。在这项最初研究的发现的基础上，我们的第二项研究将在内布拉斯加州林肯大学（UNL）和Clemson的工程设计课程中招募学期的本科团队。这些团队致力于根据一个学期的长期项目根据实际客户需求来开发产品或想法。结果，这些团队将提供一个机会，以了解整个3到4个月期间的持续互动。对这些团队的研究将使我们能够了解随着时间的推移而产生与团队合作和创作过程相关的后果的动态。该项目由组织科学计划和启发竞争性研究的既定计划共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。