Fundamentals of Management, 8th ed

Background Experiences and Creativity

Researchers have observed that many

creative individuals were raised in environments in which creativity was nurtured.

Mozart was raised in a family of musicians and began composing and performing

music at age six. Pierre and Marie Curie, great scientists in their own right, also raised

a daughter, Irene, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Thomas Edison’s creativity was

creativity

The ability of an

individual to

generate new ideas

or to conceive of new

perspectives on

existing ideas

Chapter 9: Basic Elements of Individual Behavior in Organizations

2 7 9

Copyright 2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s).

Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it.

---

nurtured by his mother. However, people with background experiences very different

from theirs have also been creative. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Tucka-

hoe, Maryland, and had very limited opportunities for education. Nonetheless, his pow-

erful oratory and creative thinking helped lead to the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution, which outlawed slavery in the United States.