AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore students' attitude towards problem-based learning, creativity and critical thinking, and the relevance to nursing education and clinical practice. BACKGROUND Critical thinking and creativity are crucial in nursing education. The teaching approach of problem-based learning can help to reduce the difficulties of nurturing problem-solving skills. However, there is ...

With the innovation rate in most markets continuing to increase, an organization’s ability to sustain creativity in its products, processes and members becomes a significant competitive challenge. Because information technology (IT) has often been considered an “innovation enabler”, many organizations are now looking for IT to support their creativity needs more directly. Accordingly, this year...

emotional intelligence (ei) refers how well an individual’s handle herself or himself and others instead of their technical skills to solve the problem. creativity makes the individual to think deeply and manage their emotions while applying new knowledge in their organization. a positive attitude toward training and working environment can develop the employee’s emotional intelligence and crea...

Product innovative design in companies today relies heavily on individual members’ experience and creative ideation as well as their skills of integrating creativity and innovation tools with design methods agilely. Creative ideation and inventive ideas generation are two crucial stages in product innovative design process. Ideal solution is the desire final ideas for given problem, and the str...

A growing body of literature discusses the importance of creativity in organizations. Together with the reliance of creativity on knowledge, and the increasing use of information systems (IS) as means to support organizational knowledge, research of the relationship between IS, knowledge and creativity in organizations seems to be in order. In this paper, evidence from case studies of real-worl...

Business process management (BPM) has emerged as an important enabler for managing risks. Organizations use BPM techniques such as process modeling to create transparency and to identify process-related risks. Existent risk management frameworks distinguish between different types of risk, such as people, technical, and management risk. Our study suggests that creativity in business processes l...

This survey study examines the effect of organizational structure on employee creativity. A total 230 employees from various industries were surveyed to gather data their perceptions organization's and own creativity levels. The found that a flatter structure, characterized by decentralized decision-making process, autonomy, flexibility, was positively associated with In contrast, hierarchical ...

Creativity is widely hailed as one of the touchstones of knowledge workers and the knowledge economy. As Amabile (1997) explains, “creativity is the first step in innovation, which is the successful implementation of those novel, appropriate ideas. And innovation is absolutely vital for long-term corporate success ... no firm that continues to deliver the same products and services in the same ...

Across industries, organizations operate in increasingly complex and uncertain environments. To succeed in such environments, organizations require their members to think creatively and integrate conflicting demands. We propose that the adoption of paradoxical frames—mental templates that encourage individuals to recognize and embrace contradictions—increases creativity. In four laboratory stud...