Team Creativity at Work: A Conceptual Framework

In prior research, the issue of team creativity could not be adequately examined and whatever little has been done is scattered. Therefore, this paper aims at reviewing and integrating the results of the earlier research studies on 'team creativity' carried out so far. Based on the outcomes of comprehensive review and consequently emerged propositions 'a theoretical framework of team creativity' is presented. In such a framework, it is suggested that the seven key factors, viz., creativity of individual team members, team composition and team diversity, team cohesion, team structure, team reflexivity, perspective taking, and empowering and transformational leadership influence team creativity. The review revealed a number of propositions which may be taken up to test in future research in the field of creativity in team context. In this paper, a few significant issues which remained unresolved in prior research have also been identified and put forth for future research.