Collaborative Research: Creativity in Teams : Identifying the Role of Meetings in Fostering Effective Cognitive and Social Processes in Teams

在过去的二十年里，人们对创造力和创新的兴趣急剧增长。创造力和创新被认为是组织绩效的重要因素。此外，组织中团队的使用也在增加。本研究的目的是评估团队会议中产生创意或产品的社会过程和认知过程之间的相互关系。该项目将评估有效产生更多创意的团队认知过程序列，团队动态对这些认知过程的影响，以及认知过程和社会过程如何相互作用以产生创意结果。我们将进一步研究促进团队创造力的干预是否会提高创造力及其对认知和社会过程的影响。为了实现这些目标，将进行两项研究。第一个研究将是一个实验室研究，小组将是临时的、一次性的会议。这些将是没有先前交互的短期团队。实验室条件将允许对团队互动进行音频和视频记录，这有助于对认知和社会过程进行详细和细致的分析。实验室研究还将允许我们测试一种干预方法，使用汇报来促进反思，从而培养团队的反身性。基于这一初步研究的结果，我们的第二项研究将招募内布拉斯加大学林肯分校和克莱姆森分校工程设计课程的本科生团队。这些团队根据客户的真实需求开发产品或创意，这是一个长达一个学期的项目。因此，这些团队将在3到4个月的时间内提供一个了解正在进行的交互的机会。对这些团队的研究将使我们了解随着时间的推移，与团队合作和创造性过程相关的动态影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In the last two decades, interest in creativity and innovation has grown tremendously. Creativity and innovation have been suggested as important for organizational performance. In addition, the use of teams in organizations is on the rise. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the interrelationships between social and cognitive processes in team meetings for generating a creative idea or product. The project will assess the team cognitive process sequences that effectively result in more creative ideas, the effect of team dynamics on these cognitive processes, and how cognitive and social processes interact to produce creative outcomes. We will further investigate whether an intervention to facilitate team creativity will improve creativity and the effect it has on both cognitive and social processes.To address these aims, two studies will be conducted. The first study will be a laboratory study, where teams will be ad-hoc, one-time meetings. These will be short-term teams that have no previous interaction. The laboratory conditions will allow for audio and video recording of the team interactions, which facilitates detailed and nuanced analysis of both cognitive and social processes. The laboratory study will also allow us to test an intervention using debriefs to facilitate reflection that fosters team reflexivity. Building on the findings from this initial study, our second study will recruit semester-long undergraduate teams in engineering design courses at University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL) and Clemson. These teams work to develop a product or idea based on real client demands, for a semester long project. As a result, these teams will provide an opportunity to understand ongoing interaction throughout a 3 to 4 month period. The study of these teams will allow us to understand dynamics that have consequences associated with teamwork and creative processes over time.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.