Effects of Performance-Based Pay, Social Recognition, and Training on Performance in Creative Problem Solving
Effects of Performance-Based Pay, Social Recognition, and Training on Performance in Creative Problem Solving

Author: Kun Huo

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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I investigate the effect of different incentive schemes on employees' effort and performance in a creative problem-solving task because current literature is divided on the effect of performance-based incentives on creative performance. I conduct an experimental study comparing two types of performance-based incentives (piece-rate pay and fixed pay plus social recognition) with fixed pay alone and examine whether the use of creativity training can moderate the relationship between incentives and creative performance. By integrating theoretical predictions from both Bonner and Sprinkle's (2002) incentive-effort-performance model and Amabile's (1996) componential model of creative problem solving, I predict that the effect of performance-based incentives on creative performance will be more positive in the presence of creativity training than in its absence. In the experiment, 120 participants attempted to solve 6 problems requiring creative insight under time constraints. Creative performance is measured as the number of insight problems solved. Significant interactions with training are found for both piece-rate pay and social recognition. I find that, without training, piece-rate pay produces lower creative performance than fixed pay. With training, however, performance is higher under piece-rate pay than under fixed pay. Relative to fixed pay alone, fixed pay plus social recognition has no effect on creative performance without training, but it motivates higher creative performance with training. Findings from this study have implications for organizations that need creative output from their employees and are looking to use incentives, either monetary or non-monetary, to motivate superior performance.

The Effects of Creative Problem Solving Training on Creativity, Cognitive Type and R&D Performance
The Effects of Creative Problem Solving Training on Creativity, Cognitive Type and R&D Performance

Author: Ching-Wen Wang

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The effects of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) training on creativity, cognitive type, and R&D performance were investigated with 106 R&D workers of a large government-owned manufacturing company in Taiwan. Seventy-one of them volunteered to participate in the CPS training and were divided into three groups. Each group received 12 hours of CPS training and two follow-up training sessions over a one-year long period in a time-series design. The "Circle Test of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking", and the "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" were administered before and after the CPS training. R&D performance averaged over the past three years before the CPS training and one year after the pretest were obtained from the company. Results showed that participant's scores on fluency and flexibility of ideas were higher after the CPS training. There was also an increase in the number of persons being classified as extrovert or feeling type of cognition. In terms of R&D performance, the participants' number of co-authored service projects increased significantly from pretest to posttest, whereas no such change was observed among those 35 R&D workers who did not participated in the CPS.

Creativity
Creativity

Author: Robert W. Weisberg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1119239346

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How cognitive psychology explains human creativity Conventional wisdom holds that creativity is a mysterious quality present in a select few individuals. The rest of us, the common view goes, can only stand in awe of great creative achievements: we could never paint Guernica or devise the structure of the DNA molecule because we lack access to the rarified thoughts and inspirations that bless geniuses like Picasso or Watson and Crick. Presented with this view, today's cognitive psychologists largely differ finding instead that "ordinary" people employ the same creative thought processes as the greats. Though used and developed differently by different people, creativity can and should be studied as a positive psychological feature shared by all humans. Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts presents the major psychological theories of creativity and illustrates important concepts with vibrant and detailed case studies that exemplify how to study creative acts with scientific rigor. Creativity includes: * Two in-depth case studies--Watson and Crick's modeling of the DNA structure and Picasso's painting of Guernica-- serve as examples throughout the text * Methods used by psychologists to study the multiple facets of creativity * The "ordinary thinking" or cognitive view of creativity and its challengers * How problem-solving and experience relate to creative thinking * Genius and madness and the relationship between creativity and psychopathology * The possible role of the unconscious in creativity * Psychometrics--testing for creativity and how personality factors affect creativity * Confluence theories that use cognitive, personality, environmental, and other components to describe creativity Clearly and engagingly written by noted creativity expert Robert Weisberg, Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts takes both students and lay readers on an in-depth journey through contemporary cognitive psychology, showing how the discipline understands one of the most fundamental and fascinating human abilities. "This book will be a hit. It fills a large gap in the literature. It is a well-written, scholarly, balanced, and engaging book that will be enjoyed by students and faculty alike." --David Goldstein, University of Toronto

Handbook of Organizational Creativity
Handbook of Organizational Creativity

Author: Michael D. Mumford

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2011-10-07

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 0080879101

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Handbook of Organizational Creativity is designed to explain creativity and innovation in organizations. This handbook contains 28 chapters dedicated to particularly complex phenomena, all written by leading experts in the field of organizational creativity. The format of the book follows the multi-level structure of creativity in organizations where creativity takes place at the individual level, the group level, and the organizational level. Beyond just theoretical frameworks, applications and interventions are also emphasized. This topic will be of particular interest to managers of creative personnel, and managers that see the potential benefit of creativity to their organizations. Information is presented in a manner such that students, researchers, and managers alike should have much to gain from the present handbook Variables such as idea generation, affect, personality, expertise, teams, leadership, and planning, among many others, are discussed Specific practical interventions are discussed that involve training, development, rewards, and organizational development Provides a summary of the field’s history, the current state of the field, as well as viable directions for future research

Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development
Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development

Author: James C. Kaufman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-02-15

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 131653894X

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This book explores the development of cognitive skills related to reasoning and creativity, two strands that can intertwine to work together at times but may also be at odds. Spontaneity and freedom from constraint, characteristic of the thinking of young children, may be essential to creativity, which has prompted many to question how much we lose as we progress through childhood. Research and common sense tell us that effort, practice, and study are necessary for the highest levels of creative accomplishment, yet such intentional exertions seem antithetical to these hallmarks of creativity. In this revised and expanded second edition, leading scholars shed new light on creativity's complex relationship to the acquisition of domain-based skills and the development of more general logical reasoning skills. Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development will be an essential reference for researchers, psychologists, and teachers seeking to better understand the most up-to-date work in the field.