Research shows that 'emotional diversity' enhances team creativity, positive people alone are not enough
When working on a project as a team, leaders may try to strengthen the cohesiveness of the team by gathering only 'people with a cheerful and positive personality' or trying to unite the emotions within the team. .. However, experiments conducted by research teams in the United States and Australia have shown that a team of positive and negative people is more creative than a team of only positive people.
Feeling differently, creating together: Affect heterogeneity and creativity in project teams --To --- Journal of Organizational Behavior --Wiley Online Library
Rice U. study: Use your team's emotions to boost creativity
https://news.rice.edu/2021/08/17/rice-u-study-use-your-teams-emotions-to-boost-creativity/
Some leaders who seek to increase team creativity hire people from different backgrounds, believing that it can help increase “diversity within the team”. However, in this case, most of the emphasis is on cultural background and background, and 'emotional diversity' is not often emphasized.
Research teams such as the University of Western Australia and Rice University have found that despite the findings that positive or negative mental states affect individual-level creativity, the emotional diversity of the members of the team is a team. I have noticed that there are few previous studies on the impact on overall creativity.
According to the research team, those with 'positive emotions' are broad and flexible thinking, helping to understand creative connections in a wide range of information, while those with 'negative emotions' are critical and permanent. It is said that it helps to show a positive thinking and critically evaluate a narrow range of information to identify problems to be solved. The research team decided to test this hypothesis, thinking that 'members with different emotional states may think about the project from different perspectives, and as a result, the creativity of the team will increase.'
The research team conducted an experiment at a university in Hong Kong with 59 teams engaged in long-term team projects. The 59 teams consist of 321 undergraduate students, and the number of people per team is 4 to 7, with 51% of the total being women.
Each project team was engaged in developing a business plan that included 'designing a new product that could be differentiated from the alternatives on the market' in the experiment, and held weekly meetings throughout the semester. In the early stages, the team planned a project that met novelty and practicality, in the intermediate stage presented a proposal to actually receive feedback, and in the final stage refined the idea based on the feedback and created a more detailed project. And that.
The research team asked the subjects to survey multiple times to report their emotional status and how creative the team was. As a result of analyzing the collected data, it was confirmed that the higher the 'emotional diversity' within the team, the higher the creativity of the entire team.
'At any given time, some members experience positive emotions such as joy and inspiration, while others experience negative emotions such as frustration and anxiety,' said Jing Zhou, co-author of the treatise at Rice University. Instead of trying to homogenize the emotions of team members, we should accept emotional heterogeneity. '
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