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Papers by Roni Reiter-palmon

Research in Multi Level Issues, 2008

Contains five essays with commentaries and rebuttals that cover a range of topics, but in the rea... more Contains five essays with commentaries and rebuttals that cover a range of topics, but in the realms of creativity and innovation. This title offers literature reviews, model developments, methodological advancements, and some data for the study of creativity and social influence, innovation and planning, and creativity and cognitive processes.

CORRECTIONS …, 2007

As mentioned above, exit interview completion occurs by telephone or by mail. Originally, CAPS pe... more As mentioned above, exit interview completion occurs by telephone or by mail. Originally, CAPS personnel attempted completion over the phone. In the event that contacting individuals by phone was unsuccessful, exit interview surveys were mailed. When sent by ...

$Research paper thumbnail of \u3ci\u3eHandbook of Organizational Creativity\u3c/i\u3e$

Chapter: Team creativity and innovation: The effect of team composition, social processes and cog... more Chapter: Team creativity and innovation: The effect of team composition, social processes and cognition, co-authored by Roni Reiter-Palmon, UNO faculty member. Handbook of Organizational Creativity is designed to explain creativity and innovation in organizations. This handbook contains 28 chapters dedicated to particularly complex phenomena, all written by leading experts in the field of organizational creativity. The format of the book follows the multi-level structure of creativity in organizations where creativity takes place at the individual level, the group level, and the organizational level. Beyond just theoretical frameworks, applications and interventions are also emphasized. This topic will be of particular interest to managers of creative personnel, and managers that see the potential benefit of creativity to their organizations.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/facultybooks/1081/thumbnail.jp

$Research paper thumbnail of Review of \u3ci\u3eCreative leadership: Skills that drive change\u3c/i\u3e$

Reviews the book, Creative leadership: Skills that drive change by Gerard J. Puccio, Mary C. Murd... more Reviews the book, Creative leadership: Skills that drive change by Gerard J. Puccio, Mary C. Murdock, and Marie Mance (2007). The introduction and opening chapter provide the overarching theme of the book, which is to connect the constructs of creativity and leadership and to make a case why the two go hand-in-hand. Both constructs involve dealing with change. The main focus of the book is the creative problem solving (CPS) approach to generating optimal problem solutions. Much of the book is spent illustrating the benefits of applying divergent and convergent thinking skills to each of the six process steps in the CPS model. The book is an easy, enjoyable read with plenty of empirical support for many of the propositions and tenets put forth. Puccio, Murdock, and Mance do a good job of pointing out that creative leadership is not just for the chosen few, but rather can be practiced by anyone. Plenty of practical advice is offered with numerous real-world examples. The book is a goo...

Frontiers in Psychology

The future of work is forcing the world to adjust to a new paradigm of working. New skills will b... more The future of work is forcing the world to adjust to a new paradigm of working. New skills will be required to create and adopt new technology and working methods. Additionally, cognitive skills, particularly creative problem-solving, will be highly sought after. The future of work paradigm has threatened many occupations but bolstered others such as engineering. Engineers must keep up to date with the technological and cognitive demands brought on by the future of work. Using an exploratory mixed-methods approach, our study sought to make sense of how engineers understand and use creative problem solving. We found significant associations between engineers’ implicit knowledge of creativity, exemplified creative problem solving, and the perceived value of creativity. We considered that the work environment is a potential facilitator of creative problem-solving. We used an innovative exceptional cases analysis and found that the highest functioning engineers in terms of knowledge, sk...

The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Personality Research

Judgment and Leadership, 2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, 2021

International journal of evidence based coaching and mentoring, 2018

One hundred and forty-six proteges with a mentor in their profession responded to a survey explor... more One hundred and forty-six proteges with a mentor in their profession responded to a survey exploring how value similarity affects mentoring success (career support, psychosocial support, and satisfaction with the mentor) and organizational outcomes (organizational commitment, career success, and job satisfaction). Results revealed that proteges who perceived their values to be similar to those of their mentor had more mentoring success. Mentoring success correlated with more positive organizational outcomes. Finally, it was found that mentoring success mediated between perceived value similarity and important organizational outcomes (job satisfaction and organizational commitment).

This project contains the materials, data, and R code for our psychometric evaluation of the 28-i... more This project contains the materials, data, and R code for our psychometric evaluation of the 28-item Creative Behavior Inventory.

Collective impact is a recently developed concept and approach to solving social problems that re... more Collective impact is a recently developed concept and approach to solving social problems that rectifies many of the issues associated with isolated impact. We compared collective impact and the formal definition of collaboration and made integrations between the two concepts. Specifically, we explored effective assessment and facilitation methods and applied them to collective impact initiatives in order to facilitate more purposeful implementation of collective impact. We concluded that collective impact is a specific form of collaboration.

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2020

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017), 2017

Organizations are increasingly pursuing crowdsourcing initiatives to gain an understanding of com... more Organizations are increasingly pursuing crowdsourcing initiatives to gain an understanding of community issues. A critical success factor for community crowdsourcing is to attract online volunteer crowdsourcing users and engage their interest besides extrinsic motivators like monetary rewards. Our study examines determinants of participant engagement in online crowdsourcing communities, specifically motivation to contribute, personal interest in topic, and goal clarity. The results provide strong support for (a) the positive relationship between an individual's motivation to contribute towards a task and their engagement towards that task; (b) the positive relationship of a person's interest in the topic and their motivation to contribute; and (c) the partial mediating role of motivation to contribute. No significant effect was found for the hypothesis that clearer goals resulted in higher engagement since they led to a higher motivation to contribute when there was an inherent personal interest towards the topic.

The Palgrave Handbook of Social Creativity Research, 2018

While most creative cognition models include three core processes (problem identification and con... more While most creative cognition models include three core processes (problem identification and construction, idea generation, and idea evaluation and selection), the majority of research has focused on idea generation. Limited attention has been given in the literature to the processes that take place before and after idea generation. In this study, we seek to partially fill this gap by examining the processes that take place after idea generation, that is, idea evaluation and selection. Specifically, we evaluate the role of providing instructions and structure for idea evaluation (in the form of definitions and rubrics) and idea selection (by creating a two-step procedure) on the accuracy of evaluation and ultimate idea selection. We examine the impact of the level of specificity and detail provided in the evaluation process on the accuracy of team evaluation and selection of creative solutions. We also examine how structured and unstructured selection processes influence the selection of creative solutions. Our findings suggest that having a rubric to support evaluating quality and originality does not necessarily increase the accuracy of team evaluation. Further, following an iterative solution selection process results in the selection of lower quality solutions, but having instructions and structure during both evaluation and selection processes results in selection of most original ideas. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021

Research on teams and teamwork has flourished in the last few decades. Much of what we know about... more Research on teams and teamwork has flourished in the last few decades. Much of what we know about teams and teamwork comes from research using short-term student teams in the lab, teams in larger organizations, and, more recently, teams in rather unique and extreme environments. The context in which teams operate influences team composition, processes, and effectiveness. Small organizations are an understudied and often overlooked context that presents a rich opportunity to augment our understanding of teams and team dynamics. In this paper, we discuss how teams and multi-team systems in small organizations may differ from those found in larger organizations. Many of these differences present both methodological and practical challenges to studying team composition and processes in small complex organizational settings. We advocate for applying and accepting new and less widely used methodological approaches to advance our understanding of the science of teams and teamwork in such c...

Creativity and Innovation Management, 2020

UNIPLURIVERSIDAD, 2019

Este manifiesto, discutido por 20 académicos y académicas que representan diversas líneas de inve... more Este manifiesto, discutido por 20 académicos y académicas que representan diversas líneas de investigación sobre la creatividad, marca un cambio conceptual dentro de los estudios de este campo. Los enfoques socioculturales han hecho contribuciones sustanciales al concepto de creatividad en las últimas décadas y hoy pueden proporcionar un conjunto de propuestas para guiar nuestra comprensión de la investigación anterior y generar nuevas direcciones en investigación y práctica. Estas proposiciones son urgentemente necesarias en respuesta a la transición de una Sociedad de la Información a una Sociedad Post-Información. A través de las proposiciones descritas aquí, nuestro objetivo es construir un terreno común e invitar a la comunidad de investigadores y profesionales de la creatividad a reflexionar, estudiar y cultivar la creatividad como un fenómeno sociocultural.