Bernard Nijstad and John Levine also pay some attention to the issue
of problem finding in their chapter in "The scope of social
psychology: Theory and applications" (2007; edited by Miles Hewstone
et al.; Psychology Press).
Kind regards,
Eric
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Dr. Eric F. Rietzschel
University of Groningen
Social and Organizational Psychology
On Jun 24, 2009, at 03:37 , Roni Reiter-Palmon wrote:
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> The concept of problem recognition has not received much attention
> in the
> organizational literature and only marginally more attention in the
> general
> creativity literature. Part of the issue is the fact that the
> concept (and
> it variations) appear under multiple names such as problem
> identification,
> problem construction and problem definition, as well as mess finding.
> However, there is some literature out there. I am attaching a brief
> review
> article on this topic that was published this year in Psychology of
> Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, and includes references to much
> of the
> work in this area from the creativity literature.
> Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
>
> Roni
>
> (See attached file: problem construction PACA.pdf)
> Roni Reiter-Palmon, Ph. D.
> Isaacson Professor of I/O Psychology
> Director, I/O Psychology Program
> Director of Research, Center for Collaboration Science
> University of Nebraska at Omaha
> Omaha, NE 68182
> (402) 554-4810
>
rreiter-palmon@mail.unomaha.edu
>
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> Was wondering if any of you could point me towards some literature
> re a
> potential fourth phase of innovative work behaviour (IWB).
>
> Whilst in much research IWB is treated as comprising the phases of the
> generation, promotion, and implementation of innovation ideas,
> Dorenbosch
> and colleagues ( Dorenbosch, L., van Engen, M.L., & Verhagen, M.
> (2005).
> On-the-job Innovation: The Impact of Job Design and Human Resource
> Management through Production Ownership, Creativity and Innovation
> Management, 14, 129-141) used a couple of items to assess problem
> recognition (e.g., "To what extent do you try to detect impediments to
> collaboration and coordination?").
>
> Haven't found any more recent refs yet on problem recognition (which
> seems
> to make sense given neuropsychological evidence on people's tendency
> towards
> novelty seeking, see Schweizer, T.S. (2006). The Psychology of
> Novelty-Seeking, Creativity and Innovation: Neurocognitive aspects
> in a
> work-psychological perspective. Creativity and Innovation
> Management, 15,
> 63-89) and was wondering if any of you might have some work going on
> in
> that
> direction?
>
> Any hints welcome!
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,.
>
> Christian.
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> <problem construction PACA.pdf>