Problems and Prospects of Managing Innovations in Emerging Markets: A Chinese Perspective

摘要

Research and Development (R&D) employees considered to be innovative and creative. They are regarded as the core of human resources as well as the prime mover of new values in an enterprise. Research and Development (R&D) teams in organizations are commonly used to solve problems and accomplish creative tasks. However, very few studies have identified the variables that affect team-level creativity, the optimal conditions that promote it, and how to design team for optimal creativeness and high quality performance. This study carried out a survey of R&D employees working in teams, the flow of R&D employees and the contentment degree to R&D employees’ present job. This study explored and validated five major factors that affect R&D team creativity by team shared mental models in Chinese context, including task characteristics, team formation, team leadership, member characteristics, and organizational environment. Results showed that we should pay attention to the team interaction with member, task and process to improve team creativity. Further from conclusions of the study, this paper put forward some management suggestions to R&D team creativity.