Necessity (not just novelty) is the mother of invention: using creativity research to improve research in work and organizational psychology
本文指出工作与组织心理学未实现其应用科学使命，利用创造力研究视角分析问题，强调创新需要有用性、容忍失败和团队多样性，并提出改进研究定义、奖励系统和合作实践的建议。
In this essay, we discuss reasons that work and organizational psychology does not live up to its self-declared mission of being an applied science in the service of improving both people’s quality of working life and organizational effectiveness. We use fundamentals of research on creativity and innovation as a lens through which we can view problems and possible solutions to these problems. In particular, we stress that innovation entails not only new, but also useful insights, that innovation requires “rewarding failure”, and that innovation feeds off of team diversity. We provide suggestions for how the definition of theoretical and empirical contributions of research, reward systems, and collaboration practices could be changed to foster innovative research that helps people thrive at work.