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  • October 1996
  • Article

Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile, R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby and M. Herron
We describe the development and validation of a new instrument, KEYS: Assessing the Climate for Creativity, designed to assess perceived stimulants and obstacles to creativity in organizational work environments. The KEYS scales have acceptable factor structures,... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Performance; Research; Theory
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Amabile, T. M., R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby, and M. Herron. "Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity." Academy of Management Journal 39, no. 5 (October 1996): 1154–1184.
  • 26 Jul 2012
  • News

What Inspires Creativity in the Workplace?

  • 13 Mar 2015
  • News

How to manage for collective creativity

  • 26 Jan 2017
  • News

Creativity and Innovation

Professor Dianne Taylor-Gearing (GMP11, 2011) is president of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. In this video, she talks about how the school encourages students to blend the creative arts with technology as a path to... View Details
  • 1989
  • Chapter

Public and Private Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile and S. J. Sensabaugh
Keywords: Creativity
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Amabile, T. M., and S. J. Sensabaugh. "Public and Private Creativity." In Key Issues in Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, edited by B. G. Whiting and G. T. Solomon. Buffalo, NY: Bearly Ltd., 1989.
  • 15 Aug 2009
  • Conference Presentation

Emergent Creativity in Organizations

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Keywords: Creativity; Organizations
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Amabile, Teresa M. "Emergent Creativity in Organizations." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 15, 2009.
  • March 2012
  • Article

Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer
Scholars began serious study into the social psychology of creativity about 25 years after the field of creativity research had taken root. Over the past 35 years, examination of social and environmental influences on creativity has become increasingly vigorous, with... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Performance
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Amabile, Teresa M., and Julianna Pillemer. "Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity." Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (March 2012): 3–15.
  • 1989
  • Book

Growing Up Creative

By: T. M. Amabile
Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Teaching; Training; Social Psychology; Personal Characteristics; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Cognition and Thinking
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Amabile, T. M. Growing Up Creative. New York: Crown, 1989.
  • 01 Jun 1984
  • Conference Presentation

The Motivation for Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives
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Amabile, Teresa M. "The Motivation for Creativity." Paper presented at the Symposium on Frontiers of Creativity Research, Buffalo, NY, June 01, 1984.
  • 2019
  • Article

Creativity from Paradoxical Experience: A Theory of How Individuals Achieve Creativity while Adopting Paradoxical Frames

By: Goran Calic, Sébastien Hélie, Nick Bontis and Elaine Mosakowski
Purpose: Extant paradox theory suggests that adopting paradoxical frames, which are mental templates adopted by individuals in order to embrace contradictions, will result in superior firm performance. Superior performance is achieved through learning and creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Learning
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Calic, Goran, Sébastien Hélie, Nick Bontis, and Elaine Mosakowski. "Creativity from Paradoxical Experience: A Theory of How Individuals Achieve Creativity while Adopting Paradoxical Frames." Journal of Knowledge Management 23, no. 3 (2019): 397–418.
  • October 2008
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Creativity and the Role of the Leader

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Mukti Khaire
In today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas has become an urgent managerial priority. Suddenly, the spotlight has turned on the academics who've studied creativity for decades. How relevant is their research to the practical... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Commercialization; Managerial Roles; Creativity; Innovation and Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Diversity
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Amabile, Teresa M., and Mukti Khaire. "Creativity and the Role of the Leader." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008).
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally associated with artistic... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 20 May 2008
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Creativity and productivity

  • 01 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity

"I'll be happy to give you innovative thinking. What are the guidelines?" © The New Yorker Collection 2005 Leo Cullum from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, recently echoed Machiavelli when he said, “You never want a... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
  • 26 Sep 2014
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Where Creativity Rules

Keywords: i-Lab; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Sep 1992
  • Conference Presentation

Work Environment Differences between High Creativity and Low Creativity Projects

By: Teresa M. Amabile, R. Conti, H. Coon, M. A. Collins, J. Lazenby and M. Herron
Keywords: Creativity; Projects
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Amabile, Teresa M., R. Conti, H. Coon, M. A. Collins, J. Lazenby, and M. Herron. "Work Environment Differences between High Creativity and Low Creativity Projects." Paper presented at the International Creativity and Innovation Networking Conference, Greensboro, NC, September 01, 1992.
  • 1995
  • Article

The Positive Impact of Creative Activity: Effects of Creative Task Engagement and Motivational Focus on College Student's Learning

By: R. Conti, T. M. Amabile and S. Pollack
This study assessed the effectiveness of engaging students in a creative activity on a topic as a means of encouraging an active cognitive set toward learning that topic area. This technique was examined in three motivational contexts. Before reading a short... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Behavior; Performance; Motivation and Incentives; Training
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Conti, R., T. M. Amabile, and S. Pollack. "The Positive Impact of Creative Activity: Effects of Creative Task Engagement and Motivational Focus on College Student's Learning." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 21 (1995): 1107–1116.
  • 17 Oct 2018
  • News

How to be Creative

  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Creativity from Many Angles

off the conference. “During the discussion, participants on the panel and in the audience used metaphors such as ‘gardener’ and ‘shepherd’ to describe the appropriate role of managers in supporting the creative process,” says Amabile, who... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • March 2003
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Management and Creativity in Television Broadcasting

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Douglas A Raymond
Management and creativity are sometimes assumed to be unrelated or even conflicting concepts. In the best cases, management controls enable artistic success by gathering resources and providing discipline. However, if pushed too far, the same discipline can stifle... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Leadership Development; Management; Managerial Roles; Creativity
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Douglas A Raymond. "Management and Creativity in Television Broadcasting." Harvard Business School Background Note 303-108, March 2003.
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