Publisher Correction: Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation

Brucks, Melanie S.; Levav, Jonathan

doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04852-5

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“…Future studies should consider accessibility for economically diverse patients as well as those with limited technological literacy. Although the virtual option was convenient for the majority of participants, it may be beneficial to offer an in-person option as well for those who prefer it and feel that it facilitates more organic or creative participant interactions [ 39 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

A descriptive exploration of younger and older adults’ experiences of Integrative Medical Group Visits for Long COVID

Mata¹,

Bankole²,

Barnhill³

et al. 2023

Aging and Health Research

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A descriptive exploration of younger and older adults’ experiences of Integrative Medical Group Visits for Long COVID

Mata¹,

Bankole²,

Barnhill³

et al. 2023

Aging and Health Research

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“…Furthermore, there was a decrease in synchronous communication and an increase in asynchronous communication. Together, these effects made it harder for employees to acquire and share new information across the network (Brucks & Levav, 2022;Yang et al, 2022). After the necessary remote working during the pandemic years, Forsdick (2022) found that less attractive economic conditions raised concerns over remote worker productivity, and restricting home working became a symptom of executives re-asserting control.…”

Section: The Changing Skills Basementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Digitally Enabled Flexible Labour Organisationmentioning

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Automation, digitalization and the future of work: A critical review

Willcocks

2024

JEBDE

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PurposeThe study aims to provide a critical review of the extent to which digital technologies are likely to replace human labour, the exponential rise in the amount of work to be done and how far distinctively human skills are future-proofed and therefore likely to be in short supply. It reviews the evidence for a permanent switch to home and remote working enabled by emerging technologies. It assesses the business, digital and labour strategies of work organisations and the promise and challenges from a dominant trend towards a digitally enabled flexible labour model.Design/methodology/approachA critical review of 1020 plus case studies and the extant literature was carried out.FindingsThe relationship between emerging technologies and work is widely misunderstood, and there are major qualifiers to the idea of an overwhelming tsunami of technology drastically reducing headcounts globally. Distinctive human skills remain valuable, the amount of work to be done is increasing exponentially and automation is becoming more a coping than a labour replacement mechanism. Moves to a hybrid digitalised flexible labour model are promising but not if short-term, and if the challenges they represent are not managed well.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation is that we are making projections into the future, though we are drawing on a lot of different sources and evidence and past data projected into the future.Practical implicationsThe problem is not labour displacement but large skills shortages that will slow down the speed of technology adoption. Skills development is vital, as is the taking of long-term perspectives towards the management of hybrid, flexible working based on human-machine interactions.Social implicationsOrganisations need to revitalise their training and development and labour management models. Governments and intermediary institutions need to manage transition states if the skills required to gain economic growth are to be available, and to ensure that large labour pools do not get bypassed from not having requisite skills.Originality/valueThe study offers a more subtle and complex perspective on the emerging evidence about the future of technology and work.

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“…Future research should replicate (using in-person, electronic, and videoconference brainstorming; Brucks & Levav, 2022) and determine the effects of the variables associated with this ecologically valid but understudied problem-solving paradigm. Future studies should also use various quality measures for hypothesis testing (see Coding Scheme and Post Hoc Analyses).…”

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Innovative ideas desire earlier communication: Exploring reverse serial‐order effect and liberating cognitive constraint for organizational problem‐solving

Ahn

Swol

et al. 2023

Behavioral Decision Making

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The serial‐order effect wherein originality increases over time is one of the most robust findings in modern psychology. This effect, found in either individual or group sessions, is based on associative and spreading activation mechanisms: Mental association takes place in temporal sequential order from commonly (closely) to unusually (distantly) related semantic concepts stored in long‐term memory. Thus, data from previous studies might suggest that, in collective problem‐solving, we endure long meetings and pay closer attention to ideas presented toward the end of the meeting. However, members in innovative organizations have been reported to typically generate ideas on their own before group brainstorming. We hypothesized that in the subsequent group brainstorming session members would state their most appealing ideas first due to impression management. Our results from the individual‐then‐group hybrid brainstorming paradigm show that idea quality during the group session peaks early and then decays, in terms of both the number of high‐quality ideas produced and the proportion of ideas that are high‐quality. This “reverse” serial‐order effect implies that meeting for a reasonably brief time and looking into ideas shared early during the meeting may lead to better decisions—if individuals generated ideas prior to the meeting. We also found that flexibility (the rate at which new idea categories were introduced) dropped rapidly, but at a certain point of time, it stopped decreasing. This potentially suggests that extended group interaction after individual idea generation could bring greater idea diversity rather than higher overall quality. In addition, we found that the updated, cognitively constrained organizational norm for brainstorming, which likely narrows the scope of search, led to greater idea quantity (fluency), quality, and flexibility than the traditional, unconstrained norm. Our work challenges the traditional application of spreading activation theory to interpersonal, group, or organizational settings and calls for attention to the specific communicative processes of problem‐solving and decision‐making in question.

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Publisher Correction: Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation

Cited by 7 publications

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A descriptive exploration of younger and older adults’ experiences of Integrative Medical Group Visits for Long COVID

A descriptive exploration of younger and older adults’ experiences of Integrative Medical Group Visits for Long COVID

Automation, digitalization and the future of work: A critical review

Innovative ideas desire earlier communication: Exploring reverse serial‐order effect and liberating cognitive constraint for organizational problem‐solving

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