Organizational Behavior - Chapter 12
Managing Creativity well answered to
pass 2025/2026
Knowledge Base - ANS ✔✔-Inventions continue to fuel economic growth and corporate success.
-Research shows that employee creativity contributes to organizational innovation,
effectiveness, performance and survival.
-Creativity can be viewed as a precursor to innovation.
Innovation - ANS ✔✔is defined as the implementation of new ideas at the individual, group or
organizational level.
The Creative Person - ANS ✔✔Highly creative people tend to be risk takers who love their work.
The creative process involves trial and error- learning from mistakes.
People who are afraid are more likely to stick with the status quo.
Cognitive creativity skills, sometimes called "creative relevant skills."
Cognitive creativity skills include - ANS ✔✔the ability to think creatively, generate alternatives,
engage in divergent thinking & suspend judgment.
Heuristics - ANS ✔✔- incomplete guidelines or rule of thumb. "Destroy judgment, create
curiosity, and ask dumb questions."
Kirton's Adaptation Innovation Theory - ANS ✔✔- Which assumes that people are predisposed
to a particular style of creative problem solving.
Managing Creativity well answered to
pass 2025/2026
Knowledge Base - ANS ✔✔-Inventions continue to fuel economic growth and corporate success.
-Research shows that employee creativity contributes to organizational innovation,
effectiveness, performance and survival.
-Creativity can be viewed as a precursor to innovation.
Innovation - ANS ✔✔is defined as the implementation of new ideas at the individual, group or
organizational level.
The Creative Person - ANS ✔✔Highly creative people tend to be risk takers who love their work.
The creative process involves trial and error- learning from mistakes.
People who are afraid are more likely to stick with the status quo.
Cognitive creativity skills, sometimes called "creative relevant skills."
Cognitive creativity skills include - ANS ✔✔the ability to think creatively, generate alternatives,
engage in divergent thinking & suspend judgment.
Heuristics - ANS ✔✔- incomplete guidelines or rule of thumb. "Destroy judgment, create
curiosity, and ask dumb questions."
Kirton's Adaptation Innovation Theory - ANS ✔✔- Which assumes that people are predisposed
to a particular style of creative problem solving.
