Midterm

Question 1

definition of change

Answer 1

Movement over time from a current position (P1) to a future position (P2)

Question 2

definition of creativity

Answer 2

The possess through which new and useful ideas are generated

A contextual, temporal process

Question 3

definition of innovation

Answer 3

utilization of ideas in solving problems, developing processes, and improving the way we do things in creating new products, services, or organizations.

Question 4

disruptive innovation

Answer 4

Creates a new market and disrupts the existing market

Question 5

cognitive factors enhacning creativity

Answer 5

Mental flexibility
Ability to link remote associations
suspension of judgment
Originality of thinking

Question 6

personality traits of crative people

Answer 6

Sensitive
Independent 
Unconcerned with social norms and social acceptance
Risk-taking
Self-confidence
Proactivity 
Need for achievement 
Tolerance of ambiguity
Autonomy

Question 7

defintion of a team

Answer 7

A small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.

Question 8

reasons for joining a team

Answer 8

Security
self -esteem
Power
Individual goal achievement

Question 9

team development process

Answer 9

Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing 
Adjourning

Question 10

factors making teams fail

Answer 10

• blind conformity
• Most teams struggle to pull together the right skills, attitudes, behaviors, and problem-solving styles to achieve adequate team diversity and cohesiveness

Question 11

blind conformtity

Answer 11

People tend to engage in illogical or bizarre behavior in order to guarantee acceptance.

Question 12

Aschs experiment

Answer 12

Video we watched where certain people were instructed to say line 2 was the same as line 1 to see if it influenced other people in the room to change their answers

Question 13

GroupThink

Answer 13

‘The psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision-making groups’.

Question 14

social loafing

Answer 14

‘The tendency for people in a group to slack off’

Question 15

causes of social loafing

Answer 15

Equity of effort
Loss of personal accountability
Motivational loss due to the sharing of rewards
Coordination loss as more people perform the task

Question 16

ideal team size

Answer 16

• The output of creative ideas on a per-employee basis decreased as team size increased (Bouchard and Hare, 1970; Renzulli et al. 1974)
• Creative Production Percent (CPP) improves with a decrease in team size until it reaches the group size of two, or dyads

Question 17

team longetvity

Answer 17

The longer groups have been in existence, the less innovative they become (Katz, 1982)

Question 18

reframing

Answer 18

Changing our view points, changing perspective to get new ideas

Question 19

connecting ideas

Answer 19

Creative ideas come from the connection and the combination of the objects or concepts that look irrelevant.
By practicing this, we can be more flexible in our thinking.

Question 20

10 brainstorming questions to consider

Answer 20

What does the room look like in advance?
Who should participate?
What is the brainstorming topic?
What else should be in the room?
How do you start a brainstorming session?
What are the rules of brainstorming?
What is the brainstorming process?
How are the ideas captured?
How much time does a brainstorming session take?
What do you do when you are done?

Question 21

cross-pollination of ideas

Answer 21

More diverse and more creative ideas

adding new ides to existing ideas

Question 22

observation

Answer 22

Look around.
Find something unfamiliar.
Bring it and introduce it to others

Question 23

first solution fallacay

Answer 23

People tend to pay too much attention to their first ideas.

Question 24

brainstorming: 4 core tenets

Answer 24

Defer judgment.
Generate lots of ideas.
Encourage unusual ideas.
Combine ideas.

Question 25

social innovation

Answer 25

new social practices that aim to meet social needs in a better way than the existing solutions,[1] resulting from - for example - working conditions, education, community development or health.

Question 26

example of disrputive innovation

Answer 26

1. Airbnb for hotels

2. streaming

Question 27

Adrian North Experiment

Answer 27

The type of music influences what you want to drink

fancy music= wine.