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Susan
Crotty
Ph.D.
candidate and lecturer, Management and Organizations
Management
& Organizations Department
Ph.D.,
Management and Organizations, Expected June 2008
B.A., sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 2000 |
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Curriculum
Vitae
4(PDF
161 KB / 3 pages)
Job
Market Paper
(PDF
308 KB / 48 pages)
Research
Statement
(PDF
77 KB / 3 pages)
Teaching
Statement
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72 KB / 3 pages)
Dissertation
Abstract:
Creativity or Chaos: Channeling the Creative Capacity
of Multicultural Teams
As businesses become increasingly global, the importance of accessing
the potential of multicultural teams, particularly in the high-level
creative tasks that are important for companies’ success,
is a critical issue. I propose a model relating teamwork process
norms, or how teams approach their tasks, to teams’ creativity.
The model incorporates the metacognitive element of cultural intelligence
(CQ). The model is grounded in the Guilford’s conceptualization
of creativity stemming from convergent and divergent processes and
Amabile’s definition of creativity as novel and useful. The
model elaborates and extends Janssens & Brett’s conceptualization
of fusion team processes by setting that
process in the context of team characteristics, especially metacognition.
I am testing hypotheses derived from the model in three related
sets of studies triangulating research methods: A large scale organizational
study of multicultural teams in a “real world setting,”
cross-cultural simulations with MBA students, and in real multicultural
teams in a laboratory setting.
Research
Interests: Multicultural teams, cross-cultural negotiations,
culture, culture and gender stereotypes, negotiations
Advisors:
Prof.
Jeanne Brett
Prof.
Leigh Thompson
Prof.
Amy Cuddy
Prof.
Keith Murnighan |
