One goal of this portion of the report is to provide a brief overview of our current understanding of what the psychological research community examining creativity tells us about the topic, as well as to review some of the conceptual and methodological issues involved in the psychological study of creativity. A third goal is to discuss some of the implications of this research for requirements...

With an increasing degree of complexity in the retail business, future business success for retail professionals will likely require creative problem-solving abilities. Therefore, there is a need for retail merchandising programs to emphasize creative problem solving because creativity can be learned. In this study, we share how an undergraduate-level creative problem-solving class is designed ...

Recent nursing literature has repeatedly proclaimed the need for creativity in nursing. Effective nursing practice in the new millennium will require innovative and creative nurses who can adapt to change and have the courage to take risks in order to provide holistic, individualised, context-specific care. An analytical study of the literature revealed interesting information on the concept cr...

Conceptual blending is an important area of research for creativity modeling. In this paper we present a creativity model that takes an existing blend and generates new blends using the nearest neighborhood replacements from a lexical ontology. For example “Artificial Intelligence” is a compounded concept comprising of “Artificiality” and “Intelligence” as two sub-concepts. After concept genera...

Abstract Feedback to physicians on their clinical performance is critical continuous learning and maintenance of skills as well maintaining patient safety. However, it fraught with challenges around both implementation acceptance. Additionally, rewarding improvement not often done, putting into question the efficacy process. Physician audit feedback have been studied extensively shown be benefi...

Access to a career and to a livelihood in society’s mainstream economy is again a topic of discussion among economists and sociologists. Great value is placed on the opportunity of working-age people to obtain rewarding work in the formal economy and to earn enough in such jobs to be self-sufficient. These are the twin conditions for what is sometimes termed social inclusion, or, more aptly, fo...

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...

Despite the oft made argument that demographic diversity should enhance creativity, little is known about this relationship. We propose that group diversity, measured in terms of demographic faultlines, affects creativity through its effects on group members’ felt psychological safety to express their diverse ideas and the quality of information sharing that takes place across subgroup boundari...