A pesquisa visou identificar as relações entre características organizacionais e de espaço para a criatividade, em organizações inovativas, com objetivo de contribuir com as discussões emergentes sobre a integração entre estratégias de gestão de pessoas e de inovação. As características organizacionais foram estruturadas com base em vários modelos desenvolvidos por diversos autores e envolveram: estrutura organizacional, filosofia e valores e políticas e sistemas de recursos humanos. O espaço para a criatividade, também baseado na contribuição de diversos autores, envolveu: encorajamento à criatividade, ambiente de tarefa, recursos e impedimentos organizacionais. A pesquisa caracterizou-se exploratório-descritiva com abordagem quali-quantitativa e é apresentada em seis capítulos. Foi realizada em quatro organizações de médio e grande porte localizadas, na sua maioria, na Região Metropolitana de Curitiba, estado do Paraná (Brasil), pertencentes a diferentes setores e densidades tecnológicas, selecionadas pelo histórico com inovações e atividades inovativas. A amostra foi composta de 12 gestores de Recursos Humanos e de Tecnologia e de 338 colaboradores das áreas técnicas e administrativas. O instrumento de pesquisa teve Alfha de Cronbach de 0...

O presente trabalho investiga a criatividade no contexto da inovação nas organizações. Em diversos campos da vida humana a criatividade tem sido uma questão relevante, em função da complexidade das soluções exigidas em situações e ambientes marcados pelas incertezas, ausência de modelos ou paradigmas e falência de outros. Na esfera dos negócios e das organizações é exatamente esta ambiência que caracteriza o cenário atual, onde predomina a demanda por inovação como fator competitivo. A criatividade surge, então, como força motriz para as inovações, fundamento de sua qualidade e fator diferencial frente aos desafios e problemas do cotidiano e dos negócios. Entendida como potencialidade sempre presente no ser humano, quando aliada à atitude e à ação empreendedora, a criatividade é capaz de contribuir para a inovação. A relação entre criatividade e inovação é aqui estudada, tendo como foco da análise a gênese de empreendimentos inovadores, pois, embora seja conhecida a necessidade de inovar, as organizações devem lidar permanentemente com a chamada ambidestria organizacional, caracterizada como a simultaneidade da manutenção e da inovação de seu negócio. Mesmo reconhecendo necessidade de inovação para garantir o sucesso dos negócios...

Este trabalho tem por finalidade pesquisar a criatividade na identificacao e selecao de criancas e adolescentes portadores de altas habilidades, com carencia socioeconomica, em uma amostra de dez jovens. A superdotacao ou altas habilidades tem sido objeto de estudo sobretudo quanto aos aspectos cognitivos e necessidades educacionais. Existem dois tipos de superdotacao: uma academica ou escolar e outra criativo-produtiva ou talentosa. A superdotacao academica e representada por altos niveis de desempenho escolar, boa memoria, grande atividade intelectual, processamento de informacoes complexas, pensamento analitico, critico e logico. Por outro lado, a superdotacao criativo-produtiva estaria mais ligada a curiosidade, resolucao de problemas e caracteristicas do pensamento criativo como originalidade, fluencia e flexibilidade. O conceito de um individuo superdotado e associado a tres conjuntos de tracos: habilidade acima da media em alguma area do conhecimento; envolvimento com a tarefa (motivacao, perseveranca, concentracao) e criatividade (ideias diferentes, novos significados), podendo se destacar nas seguintes areas: academica, criatividade, lideranca, artistica, psicomotora e motivacao. O nao preenchimento das vagas ofertadas para bolsistas no Projeto legitima o questionamento se a causa e a valorizacao apenas do tipo de superdotacao academica em detrimento da criativo-produtiva; ao pesquisar a forma como a criatividade e abordada no processo de selecao e a importancia atribuida aos aspectos criativos demonstrados pelos candidatos...

A presente pesquisa avaliou a expressão da criatividade de crianças asmáticas, buscando relacioná-la a aspectos de sua personalidade. Existe uma suspeita de que alguns destes aspectos inibem a expressão da criatividade dessas crianças. A asma é um bom exemplo de doença psicossomática. Referências bibliográficas apontam para a observação de um funcionamento atípico do aparelho psíquico dos pacientes somáticos, caracterizado por uma carência funcional das atividades fantasmáticas ligadas à imaginação e à expressão simbólica. Neste contexto, o objetivo do estudo é compreender a relação existente entre a dinâmica da personalidade e a expressão da criatividade de crianças asmáticas. Utilizou-se um método de pesquisa qualitativa. A amostra foi composta de um grupo de quatro crianças, com faixa etária de 7 a 10 anos, portadoras de diagnóstico médico de asma brônquica moderada ou grave. A pesquisa foi realizada em crianças que estavam sendo atendidas no ambulatório de pneumologia pediátrica do Instituto da Criança do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. Primeiramente, foi apresentado aos pais o termo de consentimento. Foi feita uma entrevista semiestruturada com os pais e realizados dois encontros com a criança...

Este E-Book reúne um conjunto de investigações apresentadas no “I Congresso Internacional Envolvimento dos Alunos na Escola: Perspetivas da Psicologia e Educação” (ICIEAE), organizado no âmbito do “Projeto PTDC/CPE-CED/114362/2009 - Envolvimento dos Alunos na Escola: Diferenciação e Promoção” (EAE-DP), financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).; This article reviews the literature on the relation between creativity (as a personal and a contextual variable) and students’ engagement in school. In order to describe the state of art of student’s engagement in school and creativity, we prepared a narrative review. In general, literature shows a prevalence of studies relating creativity and giftedness; students with above average skills are, as a rule, characterized, among other criteria, by the presence of creativity and the existence of high motivation for learning. As a personal variable, creativity relates positively with self-concept and academic performance, appearing as an aspect worth encouraging in the student. Moreover, studies on the impact of the learning environments on student’s performance also suggest a positive relationship between the classroom climate and academic outcomes. Although studies on the relationship between creativity and the students’ behavior appear inconsistent...

Since 1987, the European Association for Creativity & Innovation (EACI) (http://www.eaci.net) co-organizes the bi-annual European Conference on Creativity & Innovation (ECCI), together with a local creativity and innovation association in Europe, with the intention of providing a platform for practitioners and academics in the field of creativity and innovation. In 2011, the Portuguese Creativity and Innovation Association – APGICO (http://www.apgico.pt) organized the ECCI XII, with the purpose of providing an environment where participants learn with each other ways of developing collaborative activities which promote innovation. The event takes place in the University of the Algarve in Faro, on 14 – 17 September 2011.

Background Bipolar disorder (BD) patients have been reported to be associated higher creativity abilities, and recent data tend to support the hypothesis that dopaminergic system that could be associated with creativity. Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) is one of the major enzymes involved in the metabolic degradation of dopamine. The COMT gene polymorphism (rs4680 or Val158Met) Met allele is reported to cause decreased activity of this enzyme in prefrontal cortex and improve performance in several cognitive domains. Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of Val158Met on creativity in BD type I and healthy controls. Methods Ninety-seven healthy volunteers and 120 BD type I were genotyped for COMT rs4680 and tested for creativity (Barrow Welsh Art Scale – BWAS) and intelligence Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI). Results COMT Met allele positively influenced creativity scores in healthy controls but not in BD subjects during mood episodes and euthymia. The presence of allele Met did not influence IQ scores. No influence of IQ total score on creativity was observed. Limitations control group presented higher IQ scores and euthymic group was under medication use. Discussion Our research suggests positive effect of COMT rs4680 (allele Met) on creativity scores in healthy controls. One possible interpretation is that creativity is more likely to be associated with lesser degrees of bipolarity. The fact that the same results were not observed in BD may be associated to dysfunctions in the dopaminergic system that characterizes this disorder. Further studies with larger samples and other types of BD should explore the role of the dopaminergic system in creativity.

This study aimed to verify if the creativity of children with Developmental Dyslexia (CG; n = 13) differs from children without difficulties in reading and writing (NG; n = 13). Furthermore, we sought to verify how creativity could be related to intelligence. The Raven Colored Progressive Matrices Test and the Child Figural Creativity Test were applied in both groups. High correlations were found between intelligence and creativity in both groups, and variable correlations for the same type of analysis were found in the literature. There were no significant intergroup differences for creativity, although the NG had a higher overall average in creativity and the CG, the highest averages in most evaluated creative characteristics. The possible involvement of psychological/neuropsychological constructs with creativity, such as spatial processing and emotion, was discussed.

The theme of creativity has gained prominence among practitioners and academics, and the emergence of creative industries, which combine creativity and commercial logic, has rendered the topic even more relevant. Creativity is frequently associated with the existence of flexible organizational structures and organizational cultures that favor autonomy and freedom of action. However, organizations commonly impose limits on the actions of creative professionals because of the timescales, budgets, and business and customer demands inherent to the organizational context. Knowledge of creativity in academia has advanced considerably in recent decades. However, empirical studies investigating the restrictions imposed on creative work in organizations are lacking. This study addresses this gap in the literature. Our objective was to investigate creativity within advertising agencies, a creative industry sector. The results reveal that creativity in such environments is marked by collective work, conditioned by time pressures for performing tasks, and influenced by the tension that originates from the interaction between two dimensions: the search for originality and the need for acceptance. On the basis of this research, we propose the concept of bounded creativity...

This study examined the relationship between several individual differences (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, creative self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and polychronicity) and creativity. It also examined how the organizational climate (support for creativity) moderated the relationship between the individual differences and creativity. All the individual differences except for polychronicity were positively correlated with creativity as well as support for creativity. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) found that the individual differences explained 58% of the variance in creativity and that support for creativity moderated the relationship between conscientiousness and creativity and between extraversion and creativity. Because of noticed similarity between creativity and creative self-efficacy items, a factor analysis was done which confirmed some overlap. Implications of the findings of this paper are discussed.

El artículo revisa brevemente la evolución de las ideas sobre creatividad en relación con la educación y su situación actual. Plantea algunas diferencias entre educación para la creatividad y educación creadora y sus diferentes implicaciones. Muestra una serie de atributos que permiten una conceptualización particular de la creatividad, dentro de un marco de pensamiento social, histórico, cultural. Y fi nalmente, aporta algunas claves y propuestas para avanzar hacia ese modelo de la educación creadora.; The paper revises briefly the evolution of ideas on creativity in connection with education and its situation currently. It describes some differences between education for creativity and creative education and its different implications. It shows a series of attributes that allow a particular conceptualisation of creativity, within a frame of social, historic and cultural thought. And finally, the paper contributes some keys and proposals to move forward towards that model of creative education.

Creativity is a universal activity, essential in an evolutionary perspective, to adaptation and sustainability. This manuscript on the sociology of creativity has three purposes: (1) to develop the argument that key factors in creative activity are socially based and developed; hence, sociology can contribute significantly to understanding and explaining human creativity; (2) to present a systems approach which enables us to link in a systematic and coherent way the disparate social factors and mechanisms that are involved in creative activity and to describe and explain creativity; (3) to illustrate a sociological systems theory’s (Actor-Systems-Dynamics) conceptualization of multiple interrelated institutional, cultural, and interaction factors and mechanisms and their role in creativity and innovative development with respect to diverse empirical bases. The approach shares with key psychological theory approaches in the area consideration of key concepts such as “persons”, “processes”, “products”, and “places “but extends these to include additional factors such as social structures and resources, social powers, selection mechanisms (acceptance or rejection), and institutionalization. Moreover, the complex of factors identified and analyzed are specified in this article in sociological terms. The resulting model enables one to address and answer key questions relating to creative actions and innovative developments such as “who” is involved...

This dissertation, flying between aesthetics, visual arts, and political/cultural/historical issues, traverses lines of stratification, and (de/re)territorialization to examine uncertainties in making and teaching art. In keeping with a conviction that nothing is unitary, that everything is always connected to countless others, Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphor of rhizome is the central organizing element in my work. My research questions what is meant by creativity, whether assumed to be a gift, talent, or innate quality, and what is meant by teaching art in university, which assumes creativity can be organized and developed. Differing discourses of creativity exhibit a general continuity of agreement that creation takes place within chaos, and forms where chaos and order meet each other. I posit that contemporary discourses of creativity hegemonically reinforce capitalism as a system of nomadic power and of constant de/reterritorialization. All, in a capitalist system, is linked to the construction of the urge to consume, and therefore the acceleration of capitalism necessitates an increase in the rate at which we manufacture venues for consumption, even in such innovative ways as by making creativity itself a consumable package. How do we resist this? From a Deleuzian point of view...

Drawing on Berman’s (1972, 1988) political-cultural view of creativity, this thesis contextualizes consumer creativity in the context of a consumer community wrought with paradoxes and conflicts. Adopting a netnography methodology and empirically examining how individual free/open source software (FOSS) community members interpret their own creative activities, this thesis finds that consumer creativity is a journey toward a moral destiny, with morality arising from the interplay between rationalism and Romanticism and the cultural, historical baggage of these two ideological systems (e.g., sexism in the domains of science and art). Along this journey, individual FOSS community members (i.e., FOSS programmers) co-create and negotiate their common identity—a craftsperson who is a scientist, artist, and moral warrior, an identity embodied by FOSS, their creative product and a form of technology. This journey is both sweet and bitter and full of paradoxes and conflicts, all of which have rich implications about the power relationships within the community. On the one hand, FOSS programmers recreate a mythologized paradise where they re-merge with the natural world and return to human nature and where they are re-actualizing the moral values of freedom...

Dissertação de mestrado em Estudos da Criança (área de especialização em Intervenção Psicossocial com Crianças, Jovens e Famílias); A criatividade assume-se, cada vez mais, como uma competência extremamente relevante em todos os domínios da sociedade, sobretudo na área da educação. Atravessando Portugal um período crítico a nível socioeconómico, torna-se fundamental conceber de que modo os contextos escolares com características sociais diferentes (escolas públicas e privadas, neste caso) influenciam representações de criatividade e de clima criativo, quer por parte dos alunos, quer dos professores. No presente estudo, pretendeu verificar-se se existem diferenças significativas nas representações sobre os conceitos de criatividade, de aluno, professor e clima criativos, assim como sobre condições favoráveis e desfavoráveis à criatividade no ambiente de trabalho, por parte de professores de escolas públicas e privadas; por seu lado, quis-se analisar diferenças nas representações de clima criativo em sala de aula pelos alunos dos mesmos tipos de escolas. Paralelamente a este estudo, foram adaptados dois intrumentos de avaliação de criatividade ao contexto educacional português. Participaram no estudo 202 alunos dos 3º e 4º anos do 1º ciclo do ensino básico de escolas públicas e privadas...

Este E-Book reúne um conjunto de investigações apresentadas no “I Congresso Internacional Envolvimento dos Alunos na Escola: Perspetivas da Psicologia e Educação” (ICIEAE), organizado no âmbito do “Projeto PTDC/CPE-CED/114362/2009 - Envolvimento dos Alunos na Escola: Diferenciação e Promoção” (EAE-DP), financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).; Background: The importance of the construct “students engagement in school” (SES) has been recently pointed out in research and literature; however, there is a lack of studies about the relationship between this variable and personal variables, such as giftedness and creativity. These latter variables are conceptualized as a result of the convergence of personal and contextual variables, in which development and learning processes play a relevant role. Giftedness has been studied in its relationship with creativity, which, in turn, appears related to school context. Purpose: This article reviews the literature on the relation between students’ engagement in school and each of the variables of students’ giftedness and students’ creativity, as perceived by the students and their teachers. The importance of this relation arises from the idea that students perceived as having above average capacities...

Creativity is a common aspiration for individuals, organizations, and societies. Here, however, we test whether creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and a creative mindset promote individuals' ability to justify their behavior, which, in turn, leads to unethical behavior. In 5 studies, we show that participants with creative personalities tended to cheat more than less creative individuals and that dispositional creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence (Experiment 1). In addition, we find that participants who were primed to think creatively were more likely to behave dishonestly than those in a control condition (Experiment 2) and that greater ability to justify their dishonest behavior explained the link between creativity and increased dishonesty (Experiments 3 and 4). Finally, we demonstrate that dispositional creativity moderates the influence of temporarily priming creativity on dishonest behavior (Experiment 5). The results provide evidence for an association between creativity and dishonesty, thus highlighting a dark side of creativity.

O estudo examinou a extensão em que diferentes aspectos relativos à criatividade têm sido estimulados no contexto universitário, bem como a percepção, por parte de universitários, do nível de sua criatividade, do de seus colegas e professores. Quatrocentos e vinte e oito estudantes de universidades pública e particular participaram do estudo, respondendo a um inventário de incentivo à criatividade no contexto universitário, além de avaliar o nível de sua criatividade e o de seus professores e colegas. Os resultados apontam o pouco incentivo a distintos aspectos da criatividade por parte de professores universitários. Observou-se também que os universitários julgaram-se e a seus colegas como significativamente mais criativos do que os seus professores. Os resultados apontam a necessidade de maior atenção à expressão da cri atividade no contexto universitário.; The study investigated the degree to which different aspects related to creativity have been fostered by university teachers, as well as university students' evaluation of their own level of creativity, their teachers' level and their colleagues' level of creativity. Four hundred and twenty eight university students answered an inventory of incentive of creativity in the university context. They also evaluated their own level of creativity...

O estudo investigou a extensão em que professores de pós-graduação implementam práticas que favorecem a criatividade, segundo pós-graduandos, e a avaliação destes quanto ao nível de sua criatividade, de seus professores e colegas, comparando-se os resultados com outros obtidos anteriormente com estudantes de graduação. Participaram do estudo 92 pós-graduandos que responderam a um inventário de incentivo à criatividade por parte de seus professores, e avaliaram o nível de sua criatividade, de seus professores e colegas. Observou-se maior incentivo a distintos fatores que se associam à criatividade segundo os pós-graduandos. Estes se perceberam ainda como mais criativos que os seus professores e colegas, considerando-se também e a seus professores como mais criativos do que estudantes de graduação. As condições mais favoráveis à criatividade na pós-graduação se devem possivelmente aos objetivos da mesma de enfatizar a produção do conhecimento.; The study investigated the degree to which graduate professors implement instructional activities that foster creativity, according to graduate students, as well as these students. evaluation of their own level of creativity, their teachers. and their colleagues. level of creativity...