JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Team Learning and Creativity: the Roles of
Exploitation and Team Cohesiveness
Author(s): Semin Park, Won-Woo Park, Sangyun Kim, Cheol Young Kim
Citation: Semin Park, Won-Woo Park, Sangyun Kim, Cheol Young Kim, (2012) "Team Learning and Creativity: the Roles of Exploitation and Team Cohesiveness," Journal of Organizational Psychology, Vol. 12, Iss. 3/4, pp. 70 - 80
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
Exploitation, as a means of achieving team creativity, has been thought to be limited compared with
exploration. In an empirical study, we investigated the potential value of team exploitation as a strong
independent initiator of team creativity, considering team cohesiveness as a moderator of that
relationship. Our results support our hypothesis that when team cohesiveness is high, team exploitation
exhibits a U-shaped relationship with creativity, whereas when team cohesiveness is low, the relationship
is inverted-U-shaped.