Organisations acknowledge the fact that competitive advantage depends heavily on their ability to capitalise on their employees’ ideas as well as to support and maintain creativity within their working environments. Thus, the importance of creativity has long been recognised in management. This chapter reviews the current literature on creativity and discusses various views, which provide a the...

Innovation has vast morphological meanings but is simply defined as the act of announcing something new or the use of a novel idea or technique. In some cases, it is practiced as replacement to invention, though innovation is further accurately outlined as something thought up or mentally fabricated. Although innovation in surgery has a less than perfect tradition, the field and research of sur...

the main purpose of research was analysis of agricultural educator's creativity and investigating it's relation with effective contextual variables. research method was descriptive- survey and applied-developmental methods were used. statistical population consisted of agricultural educators of agricultural education centers in kermanshah province (n=60) that studied by census method....

Using multisource data, this study focused on the process aspect of creativity at work. A modification of Amabile’s (1988) stage model of the creative process with the stages of problem identification, preparation, idea generation, and idea validation served as the basis for our study.We examined personal initiative and idea-related communication as two important factors for the creative proces...

Today’s world of continuous change thrives on creative individuals. Anecdotal reports suggest that creative performance benefits from unconscious processes. Empirical research on the role of the unconscious in creativity, though, is inconsistent and thus far has focused mainly on one aspect of the creative process – idea generation. This is the first study to assess the role of the unconscious ...