Jack A. Goncalo

Jack A. Goncalo is Professor of Business Administration and the Robert and Helen Seass Faculty Fellow at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[1]

Goncalo received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University where he was the Proskauer Professor.

Professor Goncalo is known for his research on individual and team creativity which has been published in numerous academic journals[2] and highlighted in Time Magazine,[3] The New York Times,[4] Forbes Magazine[5] and CNN.[6] Key findings from Professor Goncalo’s research have shown that individualistic groups are more creative than collectivistic groups,[7] the norm to be Politically Correct can boost the creativity of demographically diverse teams[8] and that decision makers can be biased against creative ideas[9]

References

  1. ^ "Business Instructional Facility University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign", Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, DE GRUYTER, pp. 130–135, 2013, doi:10.1515/9783034608701.130, ISBN 978-3-0346-0870-1
  2. ^ "Jack A. GONCALO - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  3. ^ "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Political Incorrectness Is a Strategy". Time. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  4. ^ North, Anna (2014-11-10). "The Benefits of Being Politically Correct". Op-Talk. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  5. ^ Mui, Chunka. "Are the People in Your Organization Too Smart to be Creative?". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  6. ^ "CNN.com - Transcripts". transcripts.cnn.com. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  7. ^ Goncalo, Jack A.; Staw, Barry M. (May 2006). "Individualism–collectivism and group creativity". Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 100 (1): 96–109. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.11.003. hdl:1813/76178. ISSN 0749-5978.
  8. ^ Goncalo, Jack A.; Chatman, Jennifer A.; Duguid, Michelle M.; Kennedy, Jessica A. (2014-12-08). "Creativity from Constraint? How the Political Correctness Norm Influences Creativity in Mixed-sex Work Groups". Administrative Science Quarterly. 60 (1): 1–30. doi:10.1177/0001839214563975. ISSN 0001-8392. S2CID 22136368.
  9. ^ Mueller, Jennifer S.; Melwani, Shimul; Goncalo, Jack A. (2011-11-29). "The Bias Against Creativity". Psychological Science. 23 (1): 13–17. doi:10.1177/0956797611421018. ISSN 0956-7976. PMID 22127366. S2CID 1676869.