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Teams That Innovate: The Language of Difference-Driven Inquiry at The Workplace
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, v83 n4 p385-408 Dec 2020
Leveraging a team's diverse perspectives can be a powerful way to foster team innovation. A common approach to leverage team differences involves tool-based approaches, including brainstorming, mind-mapping, and whiteboarding. However, the effective use of ideational tools as a means to innovation often assumes high levels of team cohesion and productivity--dynamics that may not be safe to assume, especially in teams with high levels of diversity. This study investigates how workplace teams at a Biotech company use discourse to innovate, and in doing so, instantiate a larger rhetorical practice known as difference-driven inquiry.
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Teamwork, Innovation, Business Communication, Brainstorming, Group Dynamics, Productivity, Diversity, Work Environment, Corporations, Discourse Analysis, Inquiry, Pharmacy, Research and Development, Employees
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Language: English
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