When is educational specialization heterogeneity related to creativity in research and development teams? Transformational leadership as a moderator.

By S. Shin, Jing Zhou. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2007

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

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Research on Workplace Creativity: A Review and Redirection (2014, background): “Some studies show that certain leadership characteristics and styles are necessary to bring out the positive potential inherent in a team’s informational resources, which otherwise remain without effect (Shin & Zhou 2007, Somech 2006, Sung & Choi 2012).”
Deepening our understanding of creativity in the workplace: A review of different approaches to creativity research. (2011, background): “As another example, Shin and Zhou (2007) examined the relation between employees’ educational specialization heterogeneity and team creativity.”
Ethical leadership, trust in leader and creativity: The mediated mechanism and an interacting effect (2018, methodology): “We used four control variables: gender, age, qualification, and experience which significantly influence the employees’ creativity (Shin & Zhou, 2003, 2007; Carmeli & Schaubroeck, 2007).”
Intergroup Leadership in Organizations: Leading Across Group and Organizational Boundaries (2012, background): “…in these situations is framed by the proposition that in order to motivate better performance, such leaders need to create a shared team identity that distracts attention from diversity-based groupings—for instance, through transformational leadership (Kearney & Gebert, 2009; Shin & Zhou, 2007).”
Toward Understanding the Direct and Indirect Effects of Transformational Leadership on Well-Being (2011, background): “Transformational leadership has also been related to divergent thinking in teams (Jung, 2001) and to team creativity (Shin & Zhou, 2007).”
Respect as an engine for new ideas: Linking respectful engagement, relational information processing and creativity among employees and teams (2015, background): “Study 3 focuses on top management teams (TMTs), replicating the interdependence often involved in creative solutions.”
The Effect of Conformist and Attentive-To-Detail Members on Team Innovation: Reconciling the Innovation Paradox (2011, background): “For example, members of an R&D team may believe that they can generate novel and useful ideas and thus have high team creative efficacy (Shin & Zhou, 2007; Tierney & Farmer, 2002), but they might not believe that they can also effectively develop the ideas and implement them while adhering to…”
When and how does functional diversity influence team innovation? The mediating role of knowledge sharing and the moderation role of affect-based trust in a team (2016, methodology): “Functional diversity is a source of diverse knowledge (Tziner and Eden, 1985; Williams and O’Reilly, 1998), and such cognitive resources are crucial inputs to team innovation (Axtell et al., 2000; Shin and Zhou, 2007; Taylor and Greve, 2006).”
Linking Empowering Leadership and Employee Creativity: The Influence of Psychological Empowerment, Intrinsic Motivation, and Creative Process Engagement (2010, neutral): “& Gilson, 2004; Shin & Zhou, 2003, 2007; Tierney et al., 1999).”
Diversity faultlines, shared objectives, and top management team performance (2011, background): “…research recently established that transformational leadership, a form of leadership associated with clarity and sharedness of goals (Schippers et al., 2008), is instrumental in reaping the benefits in diversity and preventing its negative effects (Kearney and Gebert, 2009; Shin and Zhou, 2007).”
A Multilevel Model of Team Goal Orientation, Information Exchange, and Creativity (2013, methodology): “Team creativity refers to the generation of novel and useful ideas by a team of employees working together (Shin & Zhou, 2007).”