Spijkerman, Wessel (2024) Rejecting or Rejoicing in Creativity: Paradox Climate as a Moderator of the Relation between Need for Closure and Creativity Assessment. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Generation of creative ideas does not necessarily lead to subsequent innovation in the workplace. Creative ideas are defined as being both novel and useful, concepts that seem paradoxical in nature. When assessing creative ideas, a bias against creativity is often encountered. People tend to value usefulness over novelty. Reaching integrative solutions requires people to explore ideas in detail. Epistemic motivation seems to be salient in this regard. This study explores the relation between the personality trait need for closure and the relative preference of usefulness over novelty, hypothesizing that people high on need for closure would attach greater importance to usefulness over novelty. Furthermore, drawing on paradox theory, a paradox climate is proposed as a contextual factor moderating this relationship. Using data from 113 employees from 33 organizations, results indicated no relationship between need for closure and the proposed idea evaluation ratio of novelty over usefulness, neither was a moderating effect of paradox climate found. However, the proposed paradox climate was found to be directly related to this ratio. When a paradox climate was perceived relatively more importance was given to the novelty of ideas over their usefulness. This indicates that by encouraging people to embrace the tension between novelty and usefulness when evaluating of creative ideas, they might stay with problems longer, and as such have a better chance of recognizing and selecting highly creative ideas.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Rietzschel, E.F. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2024 06:50 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2024 06:50 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3827 |
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