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

本研究考察了关于群体信息加工的讨论，旨在勾勒出群体和个体创造力的起源。第一年，研究了群体信息加工，特别是群体如何共享和创造性地利用信息。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，现存的文献寥寥无几。考虑到日本社会对创造力水平的强烈要求，有必要促进对群体信息加工特征的研究。其次，对迅速盛行的电子通信对群体活动的影响进行了全面回顾和前瞻性讨论。组织中几乎所有的活动都是根据小组进行的。因此，在讨论电子媒体的有效性时，我们必须关注信息媒体的任务性质、所需信息的位置和信息的丰富性。电子沟通似乎改善了人们的活动，特别是在想法产生任务、信息收集任务和智力理性判断任务上。今年，我们对在一家全国性大型公司工作的1028名医疗代表(MR)进行了一项研究调查。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.