Coursey Lauren E, Gertner Ryan T, Williams Belinda C, Kenworthy Jared B, Paulus Paul B, Doboli Simona
Department of Sociology and Psychology, University of North Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States.
Hollweg Assessment Partners, Dallas, TX, United States.
Front Psychol. 2019 Apr 12;10:699. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00699. eCollection 2019.
We examined the impact of task-relevant expertise level in groups on the idea sharing and elaboration process and on idea development. Participants were assigned to low, heterogeneous, and high expertise groups and were asked to generate ideas for the development of a new sport. Following two asynchronous divergent ideation phases using an electronic discussion board for ideational exchanges, groups completed a synchronous convergent discussion phase in which they selected and refined their ideas for a new sport. The number of ideas and their novelty during the divergent phase did not influence the outcome of the convergent phase. However, consistent with our theoretical model final product novelty was influenced by the number and novelty of the replies in the divergent phase. Although group expertise level was associated with various performance outcomes in the divergent ideation phase, it did not impact the novelty of the final product. Low expertise groups demonstrated the most novelty in the divergent phase. Final product novelty was also associated with sports words used in discussions during the convergent phase.
我们研究了群体中与任务相关的专业知识水平对想法分享与细化过程以及想法发展的影响。参与者被分配到低专业知识、异质专业知识和高专业知识组，并被要求为一项新运动的开发提出想法。在使用电子讨论板进行想法交流的两个异步发散性构思阶段之后，各小组完成了一个同步收敛性讨论阶段，在该阶段他们选择并完善了一项新运动的想法。发散阶段的想法数量及其新颖性并未影响收敛阶段的结果。然而，与我们的理论模型一致，最终产品的新颖性受到发散阶段回复的数量和新颖性的影响。尽管群体专业知识水平与发散性构思阶段的各种绩效结果相关，但它并未影响最终产品的新颖性。低专业知识组在发散阶段表现出最大的新颖性。最终产品的新颖性还与收敛阶段讨论中使用的体育相关词汇有关。
