Team Creativity Research Articles

Words, Characters and Messages in the Queer Romance of Generation Z

Abstract: This article presents an attempt to analyze the structural elements and characters that make Casey McQuiston's debut novel Red, White & Royal Blue so popular with readers, as well as the challenges posed to viewers by director Matthew Lopez and the creative team of the eponymous film, which immediately became a cultural phenomenon with many fans among viewers. The novel and its film adaptation follow the relationship between two young men from prominent families against the constraints of a heteronormative society. The article investigates a pertinent and contemporary issue from a social and intercultural perspective. The primary objective is to identify and examine linguistic and communicative characteristics, including the contextual use of words and expressions, within a specific socio-cultural framework as depicted in two distinct art forms: literature and cinema. The analysis incorporates comparative elements by referencing well-known works that address similar themes related to cultural differences, behavioral patterns, stereotypes, prejudices concerning LGBTQ+, queer, cultural dynamics of Generation Z, and the influence of heteronormative societal structures. This text seeks to delineate the boundaries of a new interdisciplinary research field focused on the concept of difference. It aims to propose potential research methodologies that contribute to the development of a comprehensive methodological framework, free from bias. In accordance with the principles of academic correctness, the novel and the film Red, White & Royal Blue are analyzed. Keywords: Red, White & Royal Blue, RW&RB, new adult fiction, Casey McQuiston, Matthew López, Generation Z, rom-com, LGBTQ+, queer.

Structuring and empirical validation of a creative activity chain model for innovation in sustainable infrastructure development

This study constructs and empirically validates a Creative Activity Chain (CCA) structure model tailored for innovation in sustainable infrastructure development. In today’s competitive environment, fostering innovation is crucial for maintaining the relevance and effectiveness of infrastructure projects. The research underscores that a significant portion of a project’s long-term value is established during its initial concept and planning stages, highlighting the critical role of creativity in infrastructure development. The CCA model is developed through theoretical frameworks and empirical data, encompassing three key dimensions: creative subject chain, creative action chain, and creative operation chain. The model’s validity is tested with data from five large infrastructure development firms in China, involving 768 R&D staff as respondents. Rigorous statistical methods, including exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), structural equation modeling (SEM), and regression analysis, confirm the model’s robustness. The findings reveal significant positive correlations between the creative activity chain’s dimensions and the successful development of sustainable infrastructure projects. Additionally, the study examines the mediating effect of link strength within the creative activity chain, demonstrating its substantial impact on project outcomes. Implications for management include promoting diverse creative teams, systematic process management, and leveraging varied operational tools to enhance creativity in infrastructure development. This research contributes to the literature by introducing an integrated model for managing creative activities in sustainable infrastructure development, offering practical insights for improving innovation processes.

Human-AI Collaboration in Cooperative Games: A Study of Playing Codenames with an LLM Assistant

Playing partial information, restricted communication, cooperative (PIRCC) games with humans have proven challenging for AI, due to our reliance on social dynamics and sophisticated cognitive techniques. Yet, recent advances in generative AI may change this situation through new forms of human-AI collaboration. This paper investigates how teams of players interact with an AI assistant in the PIRCC game Codenames and the impact this has on cognition, social dynamics, and player experience. We observed gameplay and conducted post-game focus groups with 54 participants across ten groups. Each group played three rounds of Codenames, with an AI assistant supporting Cluegivers. We found the AI assistant enhanced players' convergent and divergent thinking, but interfered with formation of team mental models, highlighting a tension in the use of AI in creative team scenarios. The presence of the AI challenged many players' understanding of the 'spirit of the game'. Furthermore, the presence of the AI assistants weakened social connections between human teammates, but strengthened connections across teams. This paper provides an empirical account of an AI assistant's effect on cognition, social dynamics, and player experience in Codenames. We highlight the opportunities and challenges that arise when designing hybrid digital boardgames that include AI assistants.

Factors influencing the formation of creative student teams

Factors influencing the formation of creative student teams

Vibration of creativity: Exploring the relationship between appraisal shift and creative process in design teams

Appraisals, particularly their positive or negative valences, play a critical regulatory role in design thinking. The shift in appraisals holds significant research potential in the realm of team creativity. This study examines the relationship between appraisal shifts and the creative process within design teams, with a focus on collaborative design in a service design environment.By observing the dynamic changes in appraisals among team members at the micro-process level, we explore how these shifts are associated with team creativity. The study analyzed the interactions of 11 teams engaged in a structured experiment based on the double diamond model, utilizing video recordings and a comprehensive coding system to track the positive-negative shifts in appraisals.The findings indicate that appraisal shifts not only play a crucial role in the design process but also that their dynamic characteristics are somewhat related to the teams' creative performance. The study also compares how design teams perform differently in the problem and solution phases, emphasizing balanced attention to both phases. Additionally, a novel aspect of this study is the use of timeline visualizations to illustrate appraisal shifts, providing deeper insights into the interactions between team members and creative outputs.This research contributes to our understanding of the dynamic creative processes within design teams, offering valuable insights for optimizing team interaction patterns and enhancing the efficiency of design innovation.

What can the psychoneuroimmunology of yoga teach us about depression's psychopathology?

Depression, the most prevailing mental health condition, remains untreated in over 30% of patients. This cluster presents with sub-clinical inflammation. Investigations trialling anti-inflammatory medications had mixed results. The lack of results may result from inflammation's complexity and targeting only a few of depression's abnormal pathways. Mind-body therapies' biological and neuro-imaging studies offer valuable insights into depression psychopathology. Interestingly, mind-body therapies, like yoga, reverse the aberrant pathways in depression. These aberrant pathways include decreased cognitive function, interoception, neuroplasticity, salience and default mode networks connectivity, parasympathetic tone, increased hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, and metabolic hyper/hypofunction. Abundant evidence found yogic techniques improving self-reported depressive symptoms across various populations. Yoga may be more effective in treating depression in conjunction with pharmacological and cognitive therapies. Yoga's psychoneuroimmunology teaches us that reducing allostatic load is crucial in improving depressive symptoms. Mind-body therapies promote parasympathetic tone, downregulate the HPA axis, reduce inflammation and boost immunity. The reduced inflammation promotes neuroplasticity and, subsequently, neurogenesis. Improving interoception resolves the metabolic needs prediction error and restores homeostasis. Additionally, by improving functional connectivity within the salience network, they restore the dynamic switching between the default mode and central executive networks, reducing rumination and mind-wandering. Future investigations should engineer therapies targeting the mechanisms mentioned above. The creation of multi-disciplinary health teams offering a combination of pharmacological, gene, neurofeedback, behavioural, mind-body and psychological therapies may treat treatment-resistant depression.

Organizer of biological science: to the 100th anniversary of P. A. Lehr’s birth

2023 marks the 100th anniversary of Pavel Andreyevich Lehr’s birth (09.27.1923–09.15.2005). He was an outstanding Soviet scientist, a leading expert on dipteran insects, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, director of the Institute of Biology and Soil Science of the Far Eastern Scientifi c Center/Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences during 1981–1991. The article highlights the contribution of P. A. Lehr to the organization and development of biological research in the Far Eastern region between 1988 and 1991, when he was deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Far Eastern Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. At the same time, Lehr led a temporary creative team to develop the Environmental Program of Primorsky Krai, which he managed to bring to completion and offi cial approval during the collapse of the USSR. Unique documents from the Archive of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the personal archive of the author are presented.

The long and winding road: A team idea implementation model

Creative teams are expected to produce novel and useful outcomes in each stage of the idea journey. However, during the stage of idea implementation, where ideas are transformed into tangible outputs, creative teams encounter the tension between creativity and restriction. In other words, they need to remain flexible and open to new initiatives to increase the creativity of the outputs, while they need to follow the blueprint drawn by the ideas that are to be implemented. To explore how teams deal with such tensions in the idea implementation stage, we conducted a case study using The Beatles' Get Back project in 1969. To uncover the nonlinear, dynamic and interactive process underlying the implementation stage of team creativity, we analysed the documentaries and books about the project and the band. This led to a process model of team idea implementation. This model includes screening, initiating, trialling and evaluating stages, illuminating the iterative process within which team members implement ideas. This research provides novel insights into our understanding of team creativity.

Рынок труда в креативных индустриях

The article describes a study of the labor market of creative industries in the Tomsk Region in order to substantiate its consideration as a key factor in the development of the local creative industries in the region. The authors systematized the existing problems to improve the selection and hiring of creative specialists. They analyzed various terminological approaches of the concepts of creative industries, human capital, and labor market in terminological interrelation. The supply and demand in the labor market of creative demonstrated its importance for the development of creative industries in the Tomsk Region. The analysis also involved quality of education and professional training in the field, which revealed some potential problems related to non-compliance with labor market requirements. Job interviews should include creative tests, and assignments, team work, and information campaigns about career opportunities. As the creative sector keeps growing, studying the current trends in the labor market of creative industries has become important in the context of economic growth and its impact on the regional development. The research opens up new prospects for regional studies in the sphere of creative labor market and possesses practical application.

Will trust move mountains? Fostering radical ideas in public organizations

Abstract Demands for greater quality of public services and enhanced efficiency have intensified changes in public organizations. Not surprisingly, these organizations are increasingly searching for new and useful ideas, including disruptive ones, to meet current demands. Whereas previous studies on team radical creativity (TRC) have focused on the influence that subordinates’ trust in the supervisor has on this type of creativity, this work innovates by testing the leader’s trust in the team as an antecedent. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory, we further add to knowledge by considering the mediating role of team-perceived organizational support for creativity and the moderating role of team collaborative climate (TCC). The research model was tested with a sample of 228 teams from public organizations with data collected from two sources at three moments in time. We found that the leader’s trust in the team has a direct positive relationship with TRC and an indirect positive relationship with creativity via team-perceived organizational support. We also observed that TCC positively moderates the relationship between the leader’s trust in the team and TRC. These results deliver meaningful theoretical and practical insights into how organizations, especially public ones, can improve team creativity and thus enhance organizational performance.

Enhancing Team Creative Efficacy Through Online Whiteboard-Based Collaborative Environment in Design Thinking: A Team Cognition Perspective

In 21st-century higher education, design thinking (DT) has emerged as a pivotal approach, encouraging students to tackle challenges from diverse perspectives and nurture their creative confidence. Collaboration within DT relies on cultivating team cognition, comprising transactive memory systems (TMS) and shared mental models (SMM), which are essential for enhancing team creative efficacy (TCE) through knowledge integration and coordinated efforts. Nowadays, online whiteboard-based collaborative learning environments (OWCLEs) have reshaped DT collaboration, offering affordances for team co-creation activities. However, there is limited research on how OWCLEs support team cognition, potentially impacting TCE. To address this gap, a theoretical model is proposed and validated. Survey data from 128 college students demonstrated that OWCLE affordances directly influence TCE and indirectly improve it by reinforcing team cognition, with SMM playing a crucial role. TMS fosters SMM within teams, subsequently impacting TCE indirectly. This study highlights the potential of leveraging OWCLEs in DT to enhance students’ creative efficacy. Additionally, the study stresses the significance of integrating multidisciplinary knowledge to foster TMS, build robust SMMs, and improve TCE.

Innovative Leadership In Building A Dynamic And Creative Marketing Team: A Systematic Literature Review

This journal discusses the trend of innovative leadership in the context of successful marketing strategies, with a focus on building dynamic and creative teams. Innovative leadership is identified as a key factor in facilitating effective collaboration and creativity among marketing team members. A corporate culture that supports innovation is also considered an important cornerstone of a successful marketing strategy. Innovation is understood to be a continuous process, not a one-off event, with innovative leaders ensuring that teams continue to push the boundaries of their creativity and are not satisfied with the status quo. By understanding and applying these principles, companies can build dynamic and creative teams, which is key in meeting the challenges and opportunities in a changing market.

The Role of the Inclusive Leader in Driving Innovation: An Example of a Teal Organisation

The role of the leader is to create change and indicate the direction in which the organisation should go. Leader is the one who inspires, creates the organisational culture and builds emotional relationships that result in a much more effective company. His or her activity also influences the level of innovation in the company - the more inspired a co-worker perceives a leader and the greater his or her capabilities and freedom of action, the greater the chance of creating newer or even revolutionary solutions. The author's research has shown that the role of a leader in an innovative organisation cannot consist only in creating and promoting a vision, and then inspiring others to make it a reality. It can be concluded that the period of feisty and charismatic visionary leaders is slowly passing into oblivion, and their place is being taken by leaders who are able to discover and unleash the creative potential of the entire team in their talented colleagues. Amidst the evolving landscape of businesses, there is a growing focus on identifying key traits of leadership essential for effective organizational change. It is advocated that every organization should draw on these traits to innovate its employee resources. The presented results show the results of four years of research within the framework of the project entitled Teal Organisations: developing self-management and entrepreneurial culture in the age of Economy 4.0. The research shows how the understanding of innovation, the role of leadership has changed over several years and what research gaps are emerging. The research targeted micro and small enterprises in the family business sector. Insights from the third stage conducted in 2023 shed light on the qualities and competencies of leaders. The study’s findings highlight that leadership fosters better team outcomes through enhanced decision-making and collaboration. Our research shows, that leaders are required to acquire, develop and refine the skills of facilitating the work of a team to effectively and continuously generate innovation. The leader must master several skills, i.e. knowing the tools of creative team work, allowing the free flow of information, the ability to integrate ideas in order to create a new, better idea, so that the valuable ones do not get diluted and are qualified for further innovative work through well-considered decisions.

Tsaritsyn of Peter’s Time in Modern Historiography

Introduction. The jubilee of Peter I intensified the study of the era of reforms, when important events and changes took place not only in the center of the country but also on the outskirts, in particular in Tsaritsyn and the Lower Volga region. Volgograd historians have recently reexamined these events in the city’s history, utilizing fresh documents from both central and local archives. Methods and materials. The collection of the latest scientific publications (articles, monographs, publications of sources) devoted to the history of Tsaritsyn and its district in Peter’s time served as the material for this review. The methods of historiographical analysis allow us to compare the achievements of modern researchers with the achievements of historians of previous generations, to see the updating of the source base and the involvement of modern research approaches. Analysis. The article analyzes new editions of sources drawn from local and central archives. Despite some archaeological shortcomings, the publication of documents opens up wide opportunities for military-historical, regional, urbanistic, prosopographic, and genealogical research. The author considers the two-volume edition “Tsaritsyn Line: Monument of Fortification of the Peter the Great Era: Construction, Operation, Current State, and Prospects of Museification,” which was prepared by the creative team under the leadership of I.O. Tyumentsev, a kind of scientific result. The analysis of the collective monograph shows that in connection with the construction of the Tsaritsyn line, a whole layer of the history of the south and southeast of Russia from the Azov campaigns to the second half of the 18th century is considered. Along with military plots, many problems of the economy and economic development of the Lower Volga region, issues of social history, and national relations have been studied. Results. It is concluded that the authors of the latest publications, despite their particular shortcomings, managed to show at the modern research level that the Peter the Great era inscribed a bright, eventful page in the history of Tsaritsyn-Volgograd and its surroundings.

Linking knowledge management practices with innovation through the lens of team creativity: Moderating role of proactiveness

Linking knowledge management practices with innovation through the lens of team creativity: Moderating role of proactiveness

Exploring team creativity: The nexus between freshness and experience

Scientific collaborations are widely acknowledged as a key factor in advancing contemporary science. Using the absence of prior collaboration relationships among all team members of a focal paper to assess team freshness, previous studies demonstrated strong associations between team freshness and the ability to generate original and multidisciplinary papers. However, the intricate interplay between team freshness and the experiences of new members remains less explored. For example, individuals can be classified based on their experiences or ages, distinguishing between newcomers with limited experience and incumbents with a track record of publications. Using the existing definition of team freshness, we focus on categorizing fresh teams into two distinct types: those consisting of fresh incumbents and those with fresh newcomers. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset comprising over 5 million articles, we systematically investigate the relationship between team freshness, the freshness of incumbents, and the freshness of newcomers on various creativity measurements. Our analysis yields several key findings. Firstly, both team freshness and the freshness of newcomers display a declining trend over time, whereas the freshness of incumbents remains stable. Secondly, we observe strong positive associations between team freshness, the freshness of incumbents, and the freshness of newcomers with regard to various creativity indicators. Strikingly, we emphasize substantial promotional powers of the freshness of incumbents on creativity, even after adjusting for overall team freshness. Our results have important policy implications related to the formation of creative teams.

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Personal identity and intrinsic motivation are extremely important and determinants of each person’s behavior and attitude. In businesses, employees deeply influence the team environment, the level of team creativity and innovation, and the shared transformational leadership through their personal identity and internal motivation. This study collected data from 221 employees working in different fields to evaluate the relationship between personal identity, intrinsic motivation, team climate, team creativity and innovation, and shared transformational leadership style. Through multivariate regression, the results showed that personal identity and intrinsic motivation have a significantly positive impact on shared transformational leadership and team climate. In terms of team creativity and innovation, the results are statistically significant for personal identity.

Creative-Rational Tensions in Game Development

In this paper, we discuss an ethnographic field study conducted with a single 8-person development team operating within an established indie game company located in Copenhagen, Denmark, to explore how members of a development team – in this case mainly programmers and designers – coordinate their design ideas and development processes. In a view that accepts “the heterogeneity of production logics within the games industry” (Kerr 2017, 76), our study of a single company in Denmark contributes new insights on organized and managed team creativity by adding to this pool of varying forms of development. The paper inquires and develops a perspective to analyse collaborative game-making within a studio workplace. We explore two formats of game development team meetings, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives, to understand the ways in which teams work together to balance ‘creative-rational tensions’ (Tschang 2007) between given expectations and deadlines as well as personal expressive interests.

Work Environment and Teachers’ Turnover Interventions in Government Aided Primary Schools in Kagango Division Sheema Municipality

This study investigated the relationship between work environment and teachers’ turnover interventions in government aided primary schools in Kagango division Sheema municipality. The study adopted a cross-sectional research design on a sample of 104 teachers and head teachers. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire and an interview guide. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics namely frequencies, percentages and means and inferential methods that are correlation analysis. The findings revealed that, there was no significant relationship between supportive leadership and teachers’ job turnover interventions in Government Aided Primary Schools in Kagango Division, Sheema Municipality, Sheema District. It was thus concluded that work-life balance contributed 31% of variations in the dependent variable, followed by effective mentorship programs which contributed 13 % of all variations in the response variable, and only 5% of the variations in the dependent variable was attributed to supportive leadership. Overall, 49 % of variations in the response variable (teachers’ job turn over interventions) are attributed to supportive leadership, effective mentorship programs and work-life balance. Therefore, it was recommended that public primary schools in Kagango Division, Sheema Municipality, Sheema District should encourage more supportive leadership. This can be achieved through creation of work teams and assigned specific tasks to tackle. By occasionally doing this, public primary schools will improve on teachers’ cooperation which subsequently raises the contribution of the variable on teachers’ job turn-over intervention. Keywords: Teachers’ turnover, work environment, Government interventions

2297 Impact of creation and subsequent expansion of the acute frailty team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead on patient outcomes

Abstract Introduction An Acute Frailty Team pilot was launched in December 2022 at the QEH. The aim was to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and length of stay (LOS) by providing interventions in the Emergency Admissions Unit (EAU), through comprehensive geriatric assessment. Following the pilot’s success additional recruitment was made to the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and the service revaluated. The MDT consists of a Consultant Geriatrician, Specialist Frailty Practitioner, Frailty Fellow, Physiotherapist, Technical Instructor, Occupational Therapist, and Pharmacist. Method To allow comparisons a pre-pilot control group audit of 100 patients ≥65 with a clinical frailty score > 5 was undertaken. This data has subsequently then been compared to a phase-1 (Consultant Geriatrician, Specialist Frailty Practitioner team) audit of 121 patients and a phase-2 (full MDT) audit of 133 patients with the same parameters. Results The creation and expansion of the acute frailty team has reduced the average length of stay from 13.8 days, pre-pilot, to 9.4 days in phase-1 and subsequently been maintained at 9.56 days during phase-2. More frail patients are now being discharged from the emergency admission unit (EAU). Pre-pilot 7% of patients were discharged from EAU, increasing to 13% during phase-1 and 18.75% phase-2. 16% of patients were originally discharged within 72 hours of admission, this increased to 20% during phase-1 and 24.81% phase-2. This is also reflected in 7-day discharge data (37%, to 39% to 44.36%). Conclusion(s) MDT expansion of the acute frailty team at the QEH has resulted in improved recognition and holistic assessment of frail patients’ needs and reduced their length of stay.