Organization and creative problem solving

Abstract

"Groups from four populations differing in their amount of experience and identification with industrial vocation, were compared in their performances on the Change of Work Procedure problem." Arranged from most to least identified, there were 179 groups. "The results are interpreted as providing support for the proposition that the formal authority relations in organizations inhibit creative problem solving. They also suggest that business may be attracting people who can work comfortably, but not creatively, in such formal authority systems." (12 ref.) From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4LI77M. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)