Trial and error mindset of R&D personnel and its relationship to organizational creative climate

Exploring individual-work context fit in affecting employee creativity in technology-based companies

“…Recently, researchers of technology management have started to investigate employee behavior from the perspective of cognitive and personality psychology and how those individual dispositions are linked to technological and innovative activities, such as technology identification (Scheiner et al, in press), product innovation (Martín-de Castro et al, 2013), establishment of creative climate (Shirahada and Hamazaki, 2013). Assessing employees' cognitive characteristics and personality can serve to select appropriate candidates who have potential for high creative performance (Caroff and Lubart, 2012).…”

“…The rapid changes in technology, social context and personnel cognition have challenged conventional design of optimal working conditions in technological organization (Martín-de Castro et al, 2013;Shirahada and Hamazaki, 2013). As an antecedent of employees' innovative potential in knowledge-intensive professions (Brennan and Dooley, 2005;Udwadia, 1990), creativity is defined as the production of new and useful ideas concerning products, services, processes, procedures, and solutions to business problems (Amabile, 1996;Oldham and Cummings, 1996;Zhou and Shalley, 2003).…”

“…As an antecedent of employees' innovative potential in knowledge-intensive professions (Brennan and Dooley, 2005;Udwadia, 1990), creativity is defined as the production of new and useful ideas concerning products, services, processes, procedures, and solutions to business problems (Amabile, 1996;Oldham and Cummings, 1996;Zhou and Shalley, 2003). Although there has been much effort in the technology management literature to investigate the antecedents of employee creativity (Brennan and Dooley, 2005;Lowe and Taylor, 1986;Shirahada and Hamazaki, 2013), the relationship between individual attributes, working conditions, and employee creativity has yet to be fully understood. Integrating both individual and contextual factors from the interactionist perspective of creativity (Woodman et al, 1993), this paper aims to explore how the individual-context fit determines employee creativity.…”

“…Both cognitive style and proactive personality may affect individuals' creativity by influencing the extent to which they apply various intellectual activities that may facilitate creative idea production (Shalley et al, 2004). As an emerging body of technology management research and with increasing importance, cognitive psychology has recently been applied to address how human mindset relates to many managerial phenomena in various contexts of technological industries (Scheiner et al, in press;Shirahada and Hamazaki, 2013). In his seminal work, Kirton (1976) proposed the adaptive-innovative cognitive style, which divided individual cognition into adaptiveness and innovativeness.…”

Technological challenges for effective development towards sustainable waste management in developing countries: Case study of Bangkok, Thailand

“…For the preliminary screening, two-by-two tests of association between the current use of technology in MSWM and specific technologies used in each MSWM process were administered. With the 422 usable samples, in order to ensure that the data are analyzed effectively, some questionnaire items were eliminated by employing an explorative factor analysis (Principal Factor AnalysisdPromax Kaiser Normalization Rotation method) to determine the technological challenges facing MSWM in Bangkok based on human aspects [24]. In terms of the influence of technology on MSWM, three groups of factors were analyzed: technology for cost reduction, technology for social improvement, and technology for sustainability.…”