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- Title
Idea-Generation in Naturally Occurring Contexts: Complex Appropriation of a Simple Group Procedure.
- Authors
Jackson, Michele H.; Poole, Marshall Scott
- Abstract
This study examined naturally occurring idea-generation in organizational groups completing an extended problem-solving task. Meetings held by 11 groups engaged in a quality improvement process in a governmental agency were analyzed to identify 37 idea-generation episodes. All groups had available a group decision support system (GDSS), although some opted not to use it. Across all groups, idea productivity was low though fairly efficient, but GDSS-supported idea-generation produced significantly fewer ideas. In general, idea-generation as a process appears to be more complex than has been thought; observed deviations from idealized idea-generation norms were not necessarily dysfunctional. The findings encourage reassessment of the assumptions underlying existing normative models of idea-generation.
- Subjects
IDEA (Philosophy); THEORY of knowledge; THOUGHT &; thinking; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL groups
- Publication
Human Communication Research, 2003, Vol 29, Issue 4, p560
- ISSN
0360-3989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2958.2003.tb00856.x