Studies on creative sharing and utilization of information and knowledges by group members

本研究旨在探讨群体的信息加工过程，探讨群体与个体创造力的起源，在第一年，主要探讨群体的信息加工过程，尤其是群体如何创造性地分享和利用信息。为此，我们寻找了日本和海外关于这些主题的文献。与我们的预期相反，现存的文献很少。考虑到日本社会强烈要求提高创造力水平的情况，有必要促进对群体信息处理特征的研究。其次，对迅速普及的电子通信对群体活动的影响进行了全面回顾和预测性讨论。几乎所有的组织活动都是根据群体进行的。因此，在讨论电子媒介的有效性时，我们必须关注任务的性质、所需信息的位置和信息媒介的信息丰富度。本研究采用问卷调查的方法，对1028名在某大型医疗公司工作的医学代表（MR）进行了研究。这是为了揭示（a）工作场所的信息处理方式，以及（B）信息处理的性质如何与成员学习工作所需的知识和技能有关。

This research examined discussed about information-processing by groups with the aim to delineate the origin of group and individual creativity.In the first year, information-processes by group, especially how group share and utilize creatively informations were concerned. For this, we looked for Japanese and oversea's literature on those topics. On the contrary to our anticipation, existed literature was very few. Considering the situation that Japanese society requires us strongly to enhance the level of creativity, it is needed to facilitate researches on the characteristics of group's information-processing.Next, comprehensive review and predictive discussion about impacts of electric communication which have been prevailing rapidly upon group activities were done. Almost all activities in organizations are carried out depending on group. Therefore, in discussing the effectiveness of electric media, we have to concern about task properties, location of information needed, and information richness of information media. Electric communication seems to improve the activities especially in idea generation task, information gathering task, and intellectualrational judgment task.In this year, we did a research survey using 1028 medical representor (MR) who are working for a big national-wide medison company. This was intended to reveal (a) the way of information-processing in the work place, and (b) how the properties of information processes relate to members' learning about knowledge and skills which are necessary to do jobs.