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  • 1.  seeking creative style measure(s)

    Posted 09-17-2007 11:15
    Hi All,
     
    I am putting together a large survey around innovation in teams and am looking for a short scale that measures creative style preferences (preference for innovation vs. adaptation). I am aware of the KAI scale, but because it contains 33 items, I cannot include it without considerably lengthening the survey. Therefore, I am looking for a shorter, adapted version of the scale.
     
    If you know about repositories of innovation-related measures (books, website, etc) I would also be interested in hearing about those.
     
    Best,
    Corinne Post, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Dept of Management and Management Science
    Lubin School of Business - Pace University
    861 Bedford Road
    Pleasantville, NY 10570
     
    908.766.9366 (home office)
    914.773.3901 (campus office)


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    Corinne Post, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Dept of Management and Management Science
    Lubin School of Business - Pace University
    861 Bedford Road
    Pleasantville, NY 10570

    908.766.9366 (home office)
    914.773.3901 (campus office)
    http://webpage.pace.edu/CPOST/DrCorinnePost/startup.htm



  • 2.  seeking creative style measure(s)

    Posted 09-17-2007 12:40
    Hi, Corinne:

    How about just the "Openness to Experience" sub-scale from the Big-5
    personality taxonomy? It has the highest correlation w/creativity of
    any of the Big-5. You can find at least a couple of public-domain
    Big-5 measures on line & the Openness subscale is usually only around
    10 items. Keith

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    > Hi All,
    >
    > I am putting together a large survey around innovation in teams and
    > am looking for a short scale that measures creative style
    > preferences (preference for innovation vs. adaptation). I am aware
    > of the KAI scale, but because it contains 33 items, I cannot include
    > it without considerably lengthening the survey. Therefore, I am
    > looking for a shorter, adapted version of the scale.
    >
    > If you know about repositories of innovation-related measures
    > (books, website, etc) I would also be interested in hearing about
    > those.
    >
    > Best,
    > Corinne Post, Ph.D.
    > Assistant Professor of Management
    > Dept of Management and Management Science
    > Lubin School of Business - Pace University
    > 861 Bedford Road
    > Pleasantville, NY 10570
    >
    > 908.766.9366 (home office)
    > 914.773.3901 (campus office)
    >
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    > Corinne Post, Ph.D.
    > Assistant Professor of Management
    > Dept of Management and Management Science
    > Lubin School of Business - Pace University
    > 861 Bedford Road
    > Pleasantville, NY 10570
    >
    > 908.766.9366 (home office)
    > 914.773.3901 (campus office)
    > http://webpage.pace.edu/CPOST/DrCorinnePost/startup.htm
    >


  • 3.  seeking creative style measure(s)

    Posted 09-17-2007 15:12

    Hello!

    My name is Karl Hess and I'm an I/O grad student at Radford University. My professor forwarded your email to me as I'm (sadly) one of the very few here interested in creativity and innovation. I am not familiar with specific scales directly related to what you are looking at, but here is what I do know.

    The research I finished up in the Spring used divergent thinking tasks and found that an "unusual uses" task was pretty good. It's fairly easy to administer, but scoring it could be a pain. We used an inter-rater scoring method which worked out really well.

    You can find the research here:
    http://www.uncg.edu/%7Ep_silvia/papers/08%20PACA,%20Assessing%20Divergent%20Thinking.pdf

    Since I'm getting this email from an Org Psych perspective, I'm sure you know that groups are (in general) more creative than individuals, so you also have to consider the group you're assessing. Groups that have been together longer tend to be more creative since they've passed those early socialization issues. If you are looking at a group that is problem-solving, then it helps if they share the same expertise, whereas if they are looking for a problem then the opposite is true.

    If you haven't already, I would recommend you look into two books by R. Keith Sawyer;
    - Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation
    - Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration.
    I haven't read the second one yet (ordered it this morning from Amazon actually) but I was told it was very good and easy to read.

    I will let you know if I find anything else. Good luck!



  • 4.  seeking creative style measure(s)

    Posted 09-18-2007 11:06
    Hi, Corinne.
     
    My recently completed dissertation was on employee creativity and its antecedents. I would recommend two scales: proactive personality and creative behavior.
    • Proactive personality (10-items): A shortened version of PPS by Siebert et al. (1999)
    Proactive personality is defined as a belief in one's ability to overcome constraints by situational forces and the ability to affect changes in the environment (Bateman & Crant, 1993)
    • Creative (behavior or performance) (13-items): George and Zhou (2001) developed this scale to measure creativity, adopting three items from Scott and Bruce (1994). 
    Hope this would help.
     
    Baek-Kyoo (Brian) Joo
     
     
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    9/17/07, Corinne Post <cpost@pace.edu> wrote:

    Hi All,
     
    I am putting together a large survey around innovation in teams and am looking for a short scale that measures creative style preferences (preference for innovation vs. adaptation). I am aware of the KAI scale, but because it contains 33 items, I cannot include it without considerably lengthening the survey. Therefore, I am looking for a shorter, adapted version of the scale.
     
    If you know about repositories of innovation-related measures (books, website, etc) I would also be interested in hearing about those.
     
    Best,
    Corinne Post, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Dept of Management and Management Science
    Lubin School of Business - Pace University
    861 Bedford Road
    Pleasantville, NY 10570
     
    908.766.9366 (home office)
    914.773.3901 (campus office)


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    Corinne Post, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Management
    Dept of Management and Management Science
    Lubin School of Business - Pace University
    861 Bedford Road
    Pleasantville, NY 10570

    908.766.9366 (home office)
    914.773.3901 (campus office)
    http://webpage.pace.edu/CPOST/DrCorinnePost/startup.htm



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