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Creative Management and Development has been updated with newly commissioned and leading edge chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, team innovation, development, and well-being. The textbook retains seminal papers on creativity, perception, style, culture, and sustainable development. The contributors to this textbook represent a broad spectrum of perspectives from among the most distinguished names in the field. They give a clear overview of the topics discussed while explaining their practical implications. This textbook is published as a Course Reader for The Open University Course Creativity, Innovation and Change (B822) but will engage and challenge students interested in creative ways of managing, different approaches to developing creativity in organizations and creative leadership.
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The way people think and behave is determined to quite a large degree by innate individual differences. There is increasing consensus that there are five key personality differences known as the Big Five – extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability. Many personality tests can be related to these five factors.
In a short article, Hampson reviews thinking about personality, the prominence of the Big Five dimensions and implications for whether or not we can change. A number of commentators feel that at least 40% of the variance in the Big Five factors is accounted for by genetic inheritance. Test-retest scores over 3 to 30 years are about .65 for the Big Five measures, suggesting relatively little change in adult personality, though of course we ...
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