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