Premium
Development and Validation of Team Creativity Measures: A Complex Systems Perspective
Author(s) -
Jiang Hui,
Zhang Qingpu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/caim.12078
Subject(s) - creativity , confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , scale (ratio) , perspective (graphical) , validity , knowledge management , applied psychology , social psychology , computer science , structural equation modeling , artificial intelligence , psychometrics , clinical psychology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning
Without formalizing the team creativity ( TC ) concept with reliable and valid measurement, it is difficult to conduct rigorous research to help teams generate creative ideas and problem solving at a high level, of good quality and great value. The one‐sidedness and lack of depth of existing research on team creativity leads to the limited reliability and validity of team creativity measurements. In order to solve these problems, we introduce the complex system theory and develop the TC S cale with nine items for team creativity from three dimensions: team creative thinking, team creative action and team creative outcome. The data is collected from three distinct positions of respondents (managers, team leaders and senior staff) in 183 creative teams. The results of reliability measures, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis strongly support our scale. Further, we test the correlation between team trust and team creativity to establish its predictive validity and make a further verification on the scale structure through second‐order confirmatory factor analysis. Finally, we discuss the implications for research and practice.