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Assessing Job Candidates' Creativity: Propositions and Future Research Directions
Author(s) -
Malakate Anna,
Andriopoulos Constantine,
Gotsi Manto
Publication year - 2007
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/j.1467-8691.2007.00437.x
Subject(s) - creativity , extant taxon , pace , product (mathematics) , order (exchange) , empirical research , process (computing) , test (biology) , psychology , new product development , key (lock) , knowledge management , marketing , management , business , computer science , social psychology , economics , epistemology , paleontology , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , computer security , geodesy , finance , evolutionary biology , biology , geography , operating system
Identifying and selecting creative employees is of key importance in today's high‐pace business environment. Yet, little is known about how assessors in organizational settings evaluate the creative potential of job candidates. In this paper we review the extant literature on individual and team creativity in order to identify criteria (cues) against which job candidates' creativity could be assessed. We argue that the creative potential of job candidates could be evaluated against four key dimensions (the creative individual, the creative product, the creative process and the creative environment) and call for empirical research to further explore and test our propositions in practice.