Creativity

Style

• Kirton, M. 1976. Adaptors and Innovators: A description and measure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 61(5): 622-629. Associative-Bisociative (measures preference for single-minded, mono-thinking, or for double-minded, cross-disciplined thinking)
• Jabri, M. M. 1991. The Development of Conceptually Independent Subscales in the Measurement of Modes of Problem Solving. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 51(4): 975-983 19 items

Cognitive style

• Miron, E., Erez, M., & Naveh, E. 2004. Do personal characteristics and cultural values that promote innovation, quality, and efficiency compete or complement each other? Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25: 175–199 4 items

Divergent thinking. (alternative method for assessing and scoring divergent thinking tasks)

• Silvia, P. J., Winterstein, B. P., Willse, J. T., Barona, C. M., Cram, J. T., Hess, K. I., Martinez, J. L., & Richard, C. A. In press, 2007. Assessing Creativity with Divergent Thinking Tasks: Exploring the Reliability and Validity of New Subjective Scoring Methods. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, In Press.

Climate for Innovation

• Organizational Climate for Innovation & Flexibility. Patterson, M. G., West, M. A., Shackleton, V. J., Dawson, J. F., Lawthom, R., Maitlis, S., Robinson, D. L., & Wallace, A. M. 2005. Validating the organizational climate measure: links to managerial practices, productivity and innovation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 26(4): 379-408. 7 items
• Team Climate for Innovation Anderson, N. R. & West, M. A. 1998. Measuring climate for work group innovation: development and validation of the team climate inventory. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 19(3): 235-258. 8 items

Innovativeness (outcome measures)

• Radicalness, usefulness, magnitude of innovation West, M. A. & Anderson, N. R. 1996. Innovation in Top Management Teams. Journal of Applied Psychology, 81(6): 680-693.
• Supervisor assessment of the “production of novel and useful ideas by employees” George, J. M. & Zhou, J. 2001. When openness to experience and conscientiousness are related to creative behavior: An interactional approach. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86(3): 513-524. 13 items

Types of Innovation

• Market-oriented innovativeness Burpitt, W. J. & Bigoness, W. J. 1997. Leadership and Innovation among Teams: The Impact of Empowerment. Small Group Research, 28(3): 414 - 423. 4 items
• Problem-oriented innovativeness, Burpitt, W. J. & Bigoness, W. J. 1997. Leadership and Innovation among Teams: The Impact of Empowerment. Small Group Research, 28(3): 414 - 423. 5 items