Distributed Creativity

رابطه بین سبک رهبری مدیران و خلاقیت فردی کارکنان در بیمارستانهای شهر قزوین

Background: Providing high quality, safe and effective health care services requires competent and motivated employees. Employee’s creativity plays a significant role in motivation and health care system productivity. Various individual and organizational factors influence employees’ creativity. This study aimed to examine the relationship between managers’ leadership style and employees’ creat...

Analysing Group Creativity: A Distributed Cognitive Study of Joint Music Composition

We investigated the processes involved in an instance of group creativity by conducting a pilot study that looked closely at a group of expert musicians creating musical compositions over a period of time. We used Distributed Cognition principles to investigate how information propagates and transforms and how it impacts the compositional process. We identified three key processes (attainment, ...

رابطه بین فرهنگ سازمانی و خلاقیت کارکنان در بیمارستان‌های شهر قزوین

Background: Employee’s creativity has a critical role in hospitals productivity. Numerous individual and organizational factors influence employee’s creativity. This study aimed to examine the relationship between organizational culture and employees’ creativity in Qazvin city hospitals, Iran. Methods: 2 questionnaires (i.e., organizational culture and employees’ creati...

A Distributed Approach to Computational Creativity

The Relationship between Physical Workplace Attributes and Organizational Creativity, Case Study: Knowledge-based Companies

After years of investigating the effective factors of organizational productivity, managers concluded that physical workplace attributes is one of the most important variables. Physical workplace attributes play a vital role in increasing or decreasing organizational productivity, effectiveness, high performance, creativity as well as influence on job motivation, satisfaction and loyalty. Limit...

Designing for Creativity in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

We are investigating the design of tools to support everyday scientific creativity in distributed collaboration. Based on an exegesis of theoretical and empirical literature on creativity and group dynamics, we present and justify three requirements for supporting creativity: support for divergent and convergent thinking, development of shared objectives, and reflexivity. We elaborate on these ...