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Communication at work plays a crucial role for improving organizational performance.

Aaron G.

Organizational communication: What it is and how it impacts performance, innovation and safety

Organizational communication can play an important role in an organization’s performance and survival, affecting critical issues like innovation, safety, and operational improvements This CQ Dossier provides an introduction into the impact of organizational communication on performance.

High Performance Organization, Innovation, Organizational learning, Leadership, Workplace communication

Measuring Innovation Potential: Traits that Predict Unique Thought

Wanda Tiefenbacher

Innovation potential: Why and how to strengthen traits that predict unique thought

Innovation potential is the ability of a person to think in a unique and boundary breaking way. More than just creativity, innovation potential speaks to an individual’s capacity to generate novel and useful ideas that can inspire others and produce growth.

Creativity, Innovation, Employee selection, Five Factor Model (FFM), Diversity and Inclusion, Unique thinking, Evidence-based Innovation Management

Strategic management: how and why to redefine organizational strategy in today’s VUCA world

Today’s world is characterized as being VUCA - volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Because of this new and unpredictable environment, it is almost impossible to predict threats or...

Agility, Change Management, Collaborative learning, Decision making, Innovation, Organizational learning, Strategy, Unique thinking

A truly innovative organization provides its employees with room to explore

Dr. Devon Price

Innovation and organizational culture: How to foster innovative thinking and promote innovation in an organization

Creativity and innovative problem-solving must be cultivated within an organization. While productive, useful idea-generation does require a degree of structure, and even deadlines, a truly innovative organization provides its employees with room to explore, pursue novel approaches, and even fail (Ciit, 2016).

Evidence-based Innovation Management, Innovation, Creativity, Organizational culture, Leadership

What is Innovation? The Psychology of Distinctive Thinking

Dr. Devon Price

What is innovation? The psychology of creativity and distinctive thinking

This CQ Dossier will review the existing psychological research on how innovation and innovative thinking is defined, its relation to creativity, and how it impacts success in an organizational context.

Innovation, Unique thinking, Creativity, Evidence-based Innovation Management, Problem solving, Idea generation

Innovative teams need member that are both creative and team players

Dr. Devon Price

Composing innovative teams for creative insight: How to form innovative groups and manage them

In most professional settings, doing innovative, meaningful work requires effective collaboration with a team. This CQ Dossier provides an overview of evidence-based practices to form innovative groups.

Innovation, Creativity, Diversity and Inclusion, Team Building, Team Dynamics, Employee selection, Evidence-based Innovation Management

Toxic workplaces undermine an organization's capacity to innovate

Dr. Devon Price

Creativity killers: Toxic workplace factors that quash innovation and how to tackle them with evidence-based practices

A well-developed, well-run organization helps its employees to thrive. Under supportive, skilled management, individuals feel secure, trust that their organization values them, and feel liberated to raise concerns and propose new solutions to existing problems. A warm, relaxed, but stimulating professional climate tends to encourage innovative thinking as a result.

Evidence-based Innovation Management, Innovation, Creativity Killers, Creativity, High Performance Organization, Psychological safety

High Reliability Organisationen bringen eine hohe Leistung in besonders anspruchsvollen Umgebungen

What can we learn from high reliability organizations? Five lessons for professionals

High Reliability Organizations, also called HROs, manage to consistently deliver high performance over a long period of time in an extremely challenging environment. Learning the hard way is no...

Emotional ambivalence, High Performance Organization, High Reliability Organization (HRO), Innovation, Organizational culture, Prosocial motivation, Psychological safety

As a manager your are in charge of cultivating innovation in your organization

Cultivating innovation: An introduction to the innovation evidence-based management learning team

As a manager, it is largely your responsibility to cultivate an environment where innovative ideas can be generated – and evaluated for their usefulness. Management decisions and policies can have a...

Creativity, Creativity Killers, Evidence-based Innovation Management, Idea generation, Innovation

Team processes that support idea generation and problem solving can boost innovation

Dr. Devon Price

Team processes that breed innovation: Idea generation, problem-finding and critique strategies

In order for a work team to thrive and develop innovative, paradigm-challenging ideas, creativity must be properly fostered. Working towards that requires that you, as a manager, recognize that creative output is inherently risky and vulnerable – especially when the pressure is high and the need for a useful solution is paramount (Paulus, 2000).

Evidence-based Innovation Management, Creativity, Innovation, Team Dynamics, Team Building, Idea generation, Problem solving

Teammitglieder, die sich von ihrem Team akzeptiert fühlen, verspüren psychologische Sicherheit.

Unlocking the secrets of psychological safety: What does scientific evidence tell us?

One of the most important aspects of organizational life is that management and staff feel secure in taking risks. The concept of psychological safety is the belief that a team is safe to take...

High Performance Organization, High Performance Team, Innovation, Leadership, Organizational learning, Psychological safety, Speak-up culture

Embracing diversity productively in the workplace. What does the evidence tell us?

Embracing diversity productively in the workplace: What does scientific evidence tell us?

Diversity, and the need to productively diversify, presents ongoing dilemmas in the professional world. Numerous fields that were previously relatively homogenous are slowly achieving greater parity...

Diversity and Inclusion, Diversity Intelligence, Human capital, Innovation, Team Building, Collaboration Quotient