Enhancing team creativity with playful improvisation theater: a controlled intervention field study
| Autor: | Samuel West, Eva Hoff, Ingegerd Carlsson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Improvisation Communication business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Psychological intervention 050109 social psychology Psychological safety Creativity Education Test (assessment) Developmental psychology Organizational behavior Anthropology Intervention (counseling) 0502 economics and business Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business Psychology 050203 business & management media_common Drama |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Play. 6:283-293 |
| ISSN: | 2159-4953 2159-4937 |
| Popis: | This study investigates the impact of an intervention of playful improvisational theater on organizational creativity. Teams from nine participating organizations (N = 93) completed pre- and post-test measures of adult playfulness, workplace playfulness, individual creativity, group creativity, and psychological safety. Group creativity was assessed with the newly developed test Distributed Creativity in Organizational Groups. The intervention group (n = 50) participated in improvisation training, whereas the control group (n = 43) did not. After the intervention, the intervention group reported higher scores of workplace playfulness, individual creativity, and group creativity compared to the control group. Individual creativity was positively correlated with adult playfulness. No differences were found for psychological safety. The findings suggest that organizational playfulness can be increased with brief interventions and that play is a promising enhancer of organizational creativity. |
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