PART II TEAM-LEVEL FACTORS
In 2009 Dr Ute Hülsheger, an associate professor of work and organisational psychology at Maastricht University, and her colleagues Neil Anderson and Jesus Salgado conducted what has to date been the largest meta-analysis of team-level predictors of innovation. They reviewed the past three decades of research into teams and innovation, specifically looking for studies that had examined the characteristics and behaviour that predict innovation performance in teams.
Their search was extremely thorough. They examined all the studies that had been published on creativity and innovation (across multiple languages), searched through a number of top-tier psychology and management journals and pored over the reference lists in these research papers. After eliminating any papers that were not specifically focused on team-level variables, they ended up with a stack of 91 articles. Within these 91 papers there were 104 independent studies that reported on a total of 50 096 participants.
The results of this meta-analysis, which mirror the results of the larger meta-analysis conducted in 2007 by Samuel Hunter and his colleagues Katrina Bedell and Michael Mumford (see the introduction), are presented over the following three chapters. And if you are currently working in a team that you feel could do with an innovation injection, these chapters contain plenty of food for thought, and practical suggestions you can start to apply immediately.
Chapter 4 looks at the ...
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