MHR 405 Chapter 8: Chapter 8
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Adventures (great adventure people) canadian company whose innovations have changed how people travel natural travel Classic example of creative entrepreneur who is not risk-averse and good at making individual decision as well as involving his team in joint decision making. Individual and org influences on creativity at work: cognitive processes, personality factors, and mental blocks. Intelligence, knowledge skills, and others: environmental variables. cultural and socioeconomic factors: personality variables. Cognitive processes, personality factors, and mental blocks: divergent thinking: individual"s ability to generate several potential solutions to a problem, associational abilities and use of imagery are associated with creativity, unconscious processes, dreams (essential cognitive processes, personality factors. creative self image: others associated with creativity. Right brain vs. left brain preferences: right side creativity, intuition; what if . Left side logic, detail, planning; goals to complete tasks . rigid rules and company style: performance is highest when match between individual and org influences on creativity, creativity can be trained.