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- July 2012
- Class Lecture
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
What really makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work? Professor Amabile's research, based on analyzing nearly 12,000 daily diaries of team members working on collaborative projects, reveals some surprising answers. Inner work life—a person's... View Details
Keywords: Employee Motivation; Fostering Performance; Improving Creativity; The Importance Of Progress; Employee Attitude; Enhancing Work Life; Improving Productivity; Inner Work Life; Motivation and Incentives; Working Conditions; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Employees
Amabile, Teresa M. "The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 813-701, July 2012.
- 1 Feb 1994
- Conference Presentation
Creativity: What Is It? Where Does It Come From?
Keywords: Creativity
- 01 Jun 1986
- Conference Presentation
Maintaining Children's Motivation and Creativity
- 01 Jun 1984
- Conference Presentation
The Motivation for Creativity
- 1 Apr 1978
- Conference Presentation
Effects of Evaluation Expectation on Artistic Creativity
- December 2019
- Article
Understanding Retirement Requires Getting Inside People's Stories: A Call for More Qualitative Research
Amabile, Teresa M. "Understanding Retirement Requires Getting Inside People's Stories: A Call for More Qualitative Research." Work, Aging and Retirement 5, no. 3 (July 2019): 207–211.
- Aug 2017
- Conference Presentation
Researching Retirement
- Article
In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity
Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses and expanding to personality, biographical, cognitive, and social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known,... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M. "In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity." Journal of Creative Behavior 51, no. 4 (December 2017): 335–337.
- 15 Aug 2009
- Conference Presentation
Emergent Creativity in Organizations
- January 1982
- Article
A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation
By: T. M. Amabile and A. H. Glazebrook
Two studies were conducted to demonstrate a bias toward negativity in evaluations of persons or their work in particular social circumstances. In Study 1, subjects evaluated materials written by peers. Those working under conditions that placed them in low status... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Status and Position; Prejudice and Bias; Performance Evaluation; Situation or Environment; Perception; Attitudes
Amabile, T. M., and A. H. Glazebrook. "A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 18 (January 1982): 1–22.
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
be developed into team players? How do teams learn? How Does A Team Leader Win The Confidence Of The Group? How Team Leaders Show Support—or Not What does a team leader do so that employees know they are being supported? A Q&A with HBS professor and creativity... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2012
- Chapter
Use a 10-Minute Diary to Stay on Track
By: Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
Amabile, Teresa, and Steven Kramer. "Use a 10-Minute Diary to Stay on Track." Chap. 20 in HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done, 125–131. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2013
- Working Paper
J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)
By: Ruth Wageman and Teresa M. Amabile
When J. Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and team effectiveness. In both... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry; Cambridge
Wageman, Ruth, and Teresa M. Amabile. "J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-009, July 2013.
- February 1996
- Case
Seaman Corporation
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Dean Whitney
Amabile, Teresa M., and Dean Whitney. "Seaman Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 396-268, February 1996.
- 1 Apr 1989
- Conference Presentation
Assessing the Environment for Creativity: The Work Environment Inventory
By: Teresa M. Amabile and N. Gryskiewicz
- May 2018
- Article
The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work
By: Andrew Brodsky and Teresa M. Amabile
Although both media commentary and academic research have focused much attention on the dilemma of employees being too busy, this paper presents evidence of the opposite phenomenon, in which employees do not have enough work to fill their time and are left with hours... View Details
Brodsky, Andrew, and Teresa M. Amabile. "The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work." Journal of Applied Psychology 103, no. 5 (May 2018): 496–512.