Fostering team creativity: Perspective Taking as Key to Unlocking Diversity's Potential

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 982-996

  Hoever, Inga J ^a   van Knippenberg, Daan ^a   van Ginkel, Wendy P ^a   Barkema, Harry G ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Perspective taking; Team creativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CREATIVITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MALE; MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CREATIVITY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT TEAMS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871356558     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029159     Document Type: Article

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