3rd Qrtr - 2nd Half

• Factors that influence creativity

  • Problem solving factors
  • Motivational factors
  • Situational factors
  • Organizational factors
• Problem solving factors


  Ability to solve problems, influenced by knowledge, experience, and education
• Problem solving factors


  Exposures through reading, traveling, observing, work experience, training
• Motivational factors


  Willingness to address dissatisfactions, plan ahead, take risks, address uncertainties, respond to threats
• Situational factors


  Creativity manifested when confronted with concrete situations, requiring skills in interacting with others and managing time under pressure
• Organizational factors


  Management support, risk taking incentives, flexible rules, degrees of freedom, positive evaluation
• Mere presence of factors is not enough, need to balance interactions of all factors into a complex system</b>
• Confluence approach to creativity

  Balancing interactions of all factors in each category, and balancing interactions of all categories
• Creative problem solving (CPS)


  Procedure of answering a problem with mechanisms and techniques incorporating creativity
• CPS uses divergent thinking processes and convergent thinking mechanisms in various stages of seeking a solution
• Creative problem solving (Osborn-Parnes model)

  1. Setting the objective

  2. Revisiting the objective

  3. Identifying the problem

  4. Looking for a solution

  5. Selecting a solution

  6. Accepting the solution
• Divergent and convergent thinking processes are used in problem identification and solution selection
• Divergent thinking methods


  • Brainstorming
  • Checklist method
  • Free association method
  • Problem inventory analysis