Leadership is a key predictor of employee, team, and organizational creativity and
innovation. Research in this area holds great promise for the development of intriguing …

Over the years, a growing body of evidence indicates that certain cognitive skills are a
critical determinant of leader performance. In the present effort we show that application of …

Creative thinking skills can be considered one of the key competencies for the twenty-first
century—they allow us to remain flexible and provide us with the capacity to deal with the …

Divergent thinking (DT) tests are very often used in creativity studies. Certainly DT does not
guarantee actual creative achievement, but tests of DT are reliable and reasonably valid …

This article reviews research on divergent thinking (DT) and the new methods that have
recently been developed. Special attention is given to the theory of Literal DT, where …

Global competition, new production techniques, and rapid technological change have
placed a premium on creativity and innovation. Although many variables influence creativity …

Over the course of the last half century, numerous training programs intended to develop
creativity capacities have been proposed. In this study, a quantitative meta‐analysis of …

Employees in many jobs encounter novel, ill-defined problems, and finding creative
solutions to these problems may be the critical factor that allows their organization to …

Creativity tests measure specific cognitive processes such as thinking divergently, making
associations, constructing and combining broad categories, or working on many ideas …

We employ two study designs for a more detailed examination of creativity in the opportunity
identification process. We employ a correlational field study to test the hypothesis that …