Creativity in the Context of Team Diversity: Team Leader Perspectives

Advances in Developing Human Resources

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 207-225

  Egan, Toby Marshall ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

creativity; diversity; leadership; team creativity; teaming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990370596     PISSN: 15234223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1523422305274526     Document Type: Article

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