Personality, attitude, and leader influences on divergent thinking and creativity in organizations

By Scott David Williams. 2004

147 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Dan S. Chiaburu
2. Natalia M. Lorinkova
3. Jeou-Shyan Horng
4. Steven K. Yoho
5. Ian Fillis
6. Jeffery D. Houghton
7. Linn van Dyne
8. Ruth Rentschler

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Natalia M. Lorinkova
2. Jeou-Shyan Horng
3. Steven K. Yoho
4. Dan S. Chiaburu
5. Ian Fillis
6. Jeffery D. Houghton
7. Linn van Dyne
8. Ruth Rentschler

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Dan S. Chiaburu
2. Natalia M. Lorinkova
3. Linn van Dyne
4. Jeffery D. Houghton
5. Jeou-Shyan Horng
6. Steven K. Yoho
7. Ian Fillis
8. Ruth Rentschler

Citations in the corpus

• The Mystery in the Kitchen: Culinary Creativity (2008, background): “Participants also tended to emphasize creative thinking as a kind of divergent thinking: They felt that new insights were, to some degree, made possible by Gestalt-switch-like shifts in perspective, sometimes aided by the experience of other cultures and of the unusual cuisines of other cultures (Mo”
• Toward a Contingency Model of Leadership and Psychological Empowerment: When Should Self-Leadership Be Encouraged? (2005, background): “For example, Williams (2001) foun6 a negative relationship between initiating structure, a primary aspect of the directive leadership approach, and subordinates’ creative performance.”
• Toward an Understanding of When Executives See Crisis as Opportunity (2008, unknown): “Divergent thinking, or the ability to generate a variety of differing ideas, opinions, or arguments, is an integral part of the creative problem-solving process for individuals and teams (Janis, 1982; Williams, 2004).”
• THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2010, background): “Many of these factors are also firmly rooted in the entrepreneurship literature where decision maker personality impacts on the future direction of the organisation (Lau and Schaffer 1999; Williams 2004; Fillis and Rentschler 2006).”
• Employees’ Social Context and Change-Oriented Citizenship (2013, background): “Empowering leadership predicts proactive behaviors (Raub & Robert, 2010); support and coaching from team leaders facilitates independence, taking charge, and voice (Edmondson, 2003; Morrison & Phelps, 1999) as well as a sense of felt responsibility for constructive change (Fuller, Marler, & Hester, ”