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Creativity in Hospitality Industry: Study of Hostels in St. Petersburg
Coactivity: Philosophy, Communication. 2014. Vol. 22. No. 2. P. 137-144.
Borovskaya I., Dedova M.
The aim of this study is to explore dimensions of creativity in hostels managerial practices taking the example of St. Petersburg. Within the study 72 semi-structured interviews were conducted with owners and employees of hostels during October–November 2012. The findings of the study identify four main managerial activities as key elements of creativity in hostels. They are: targeted recruitment, segmentation of customers, organization of space, and organization of communications both with internal and external stakeholders.
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Hachaturova M. R., Fedorova A., Социальная психология и общество 2018 Т. 9 № 1 С. 108-123
The skills of non-standard thinking and creativity play an important role in stress- ful situations. We hypothesized that stress factors influence the effectiveness of pass- ing the assessment by employees: high level of creativity increases the effectiveness of task execution. We conducted the experiment and used J. Guilford’s technique and tasks on creativity thinking, created by ...
Added: March 8, 2018
Lebedeva N., 78704944, Cherkasova L. L., / Университет Барселоны. Series WP5 "SEARCH Working Paper". 2013. No. WP5/09.
This study examines the relationship of values and social capital with attitudes towards innovations. The respondents (N = 1238) were asked to fill in a questionnaire, which included the Schwartz value survey SVS-57, a selfassessment scale of innovative personality traits [Lebedeva, Tatarko, 2009], and a method of assessing social capital [Tatarko, 2011]. The results of ...
Added: March 29, 2013
Tekic A., Vrgovic P., Tekic Z., Procedia Engineering 2014 Vol. 69 P. 830-837
Focusing on the characteristics of different thinking styles and different product development project types, we suggest that people should adapt their thinking strategies according to the challenge they face and choose a thinking style that is a best match for the type of project they are working on. Even though people can perform well in ...
Added: January 20, 2021
Knyazeva H., Курдюмов С. П., М. : КомКнига, 2006
Main concepts and models of the modern theory of self-organization of complex systems, called also synergetics, are generalized and formulated in the book as principles of a synergetic world view. They are under discussion in the context of philosophical studies of holism, teleology, evolutionism as well as of gestalt-psychology; they are compared with some images ...
Added: November 10, 2013
Yagolkovskiy S. R., Social Behavior and Personality 2016 Vol. 44 No. 5 P. 761-766
This paper reports on a study that examined the extent to which idea exchange within an electronic brainstorming session produces stimulation of individual creativity. The influence of ideas exchange on particular parameters of creativity was assessed in an idea-exposure paradigm. The design of the study involved the manipulation of the characteristics of stimuli: common, rare, ...
Added: October 6, 2015
Yagolkovskiy S. R., Kharkhurin A., Thinking Skills and Creativity 2016 Vol. 22 P. 14-21
The study examines the effects of singularity (rare, common) and organization (discrete, concurrent) of stimulating material on divergent thinking. Divergent thinking was assessed by the Unusual Uses test, in which participants had to generate as many uses as possible for a wooden ruler. Participants were primed with either rare or common ideas which were presented ...
Added: October 7, 2015
Shnyrkova A., Predvoditeleva M., Reshetnikova K., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 8. Менеджмент 2020 Т. 19 № 2 С. 256-282
The main goal of the research is to identify the currently forming research problems in the area of halal tourism and hospitality which were reflected in the publications of international and Russian authors. The research design is based on the application of methods and tools of bibliometric analysis (Bibliometrix R-package and the “statistical reports”), word ...
Added: May 13, 2020
Fedorova A., Организационная психология 2018 Т. 8 № 2 С. 119-157
In this paper, creativity is explored in three dimensions: as a divergent thinking (J. Gilford), a self-actualization component (A. Maslow), and a flow state (M. Cikszentmihayi). Certain personal properties of the creative employee can be associated with conflict behavior, provoke its occurrence, intensity and readiness to cope. Purpose. The main goal of the research is to ...
Added: November 4, 2019
Korelina A., Препринты Программы фундаментальных исследований НИУ ВШЭ. Серия Management 2016
The paper introduces a technique of customer engagement in co-creation in the hotel industry. This technique includes a mechanism of customer engagement which helps companies monitor and control the process of customer engagement in co-creation. Further, we describe several subroutines of this mechanism, namely, the object and stages of customer engagement, tasks, tools and indicators ...
Added: October 19, 2016
Springer, 2016
Added: April 1, 2018
Gordin V. E., Dedova M., International Journal of Management Cases 2014 Vol. 16 No. 2 P. 32-40
The purpose of this study is to explore creativity dimensions of the Museum Night event held in St. Petersburg for the sixth time in 2013. This distributed event annually organised throughout more than 160 countries, is characterized in St. Petersburg by a number of single events arranged in the same time and devoted to one ...
Added: August 7, 2014
Knyazeva H., Курдюмов С. П., СПб. : Алетейя, 2002
Main concepts and models of the modern theory of self-organization of complex systems, called also synergetics, are generalized and formulated in the book as principles of a synergetic world view. They are under discussion in the context of philosophical studies of holism, teleology, evolutionism as well as of gestalt-psychology; they are compared with some images ...
Added: November 10, 2013
Fedorova A., Психология. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2019 Т. 16 № 1 С. 191-205
The creativity phenomenon attracts the researchers’ attention, but the main characteristics of the creative personality have not been determined yet. In a number of studies creative person- ality is associated with such features as autonomy, enterprise, radicality, openness to experience and neuroticism (Lubart, 2000). The paper offers analysis of theories and studies devoted to the ...
Added: November 4, 2019
Yagolkovskiy S. R., Медведев Б., Plos One 2019
The present study deals with functional fixedness which impedes creative thinking. Functional fixedness is related to excessive focusing on a specific functional property of an object. We assumed that the naming of other objects which possess the same functional property to a lesser extent than a given object can reduce the excessive focusing on this ...
Added: October 5, 2018
St. Petersburg : St. Petersburg University, 2017
The acknowledgment of the knowledge-based nature of today’s economy and of organisations points out that knowledge workers and knowledge processes are at the basis of organisations competitiveness and knowledge management is a necessary dimension connecting operations and strategy in order to translate knowledge into organisational performance and value outputs and impacts. However, the ability of ...
Added: June 12, 2017
Isaeva O., Savinova S. Y., Организационная психология 2020 Т. 10 № 3 С. 69-84
Abstract. Purpose. To evaluate future managers’ soft skills using psychological methods and graphology. Design. Future managers’ soft skills evaluation (determination, communicability, critical thinking, creativity, flexibility of thinking) took place in 3 stages. In the first stage, soft skills development was evaluated by methods of psycholog- ical diagnostics. In the second stage, soft skills assessment was carried out using graphological expertise. ...
Added: March 28, 2020
Yagolkovskiy S. R., Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 2015 Vol. 12 No. 4 P. 184-191
The present paper focuses on the most popular form of group creativity, brainstorming. Both advantages and shortcomings of the method were examined. There are a number of factors which determine to a considerable degree the effectiveness of brainstorming. Novelty and variability of ideas exchanged, as well as the size of a brainstorming group are the ...
Added: October 10, 2015
Лау Д. Ф., М. : Эксмо, 2017
The author teaches to awaken creativity in oneself, using emotions as a factor of motivation, explains the concept of critical thinking, gives the reader tools to add / edit publications to increase the clarity and rationality of their own judgments, and also shows where a particular theory is applicable ...
Added: October 8, 2018
Lebedeva N., Grigoryan L., / Университет Барселоны. Series WP5 "SEARCH Working Paper". 2013. No. WP5/10.
This study revealed and examined cultural differences in values, implicit theories of innovativeness and attitudes to innovation across three ethnocultural groups: Russians, representatives of the peoples of North Caucasus (Ingush and Chechens), and Tuvins (N = 804). Individual theories of innovativeness appeared to be more pronounced in Russians; whereas social theories of innovativeness are more ...
Added: March 29, 2013
Borovskaya I., Dedova M., Matetskaya M. V. et al., СПб. : Левша-Санкт-Петербург, 2015
Данная книга посвящена, на первый взгляд, новому явлению – креативной гастрономии. Поскольку ставшее популярным и рас- пространенным в последние годы слово «креативность» на уровне обыденного сознания формирует образы чего-то принципиаль- но нового, искусно, а иногда, искусственно, сконструированного, креативная гастрономия ассоциируется с творческими поисками и различного рода инновациями, прочно вошедшими в последние годы в нашу жизнь. ...
Added: March 14, 2016
Корелина А. С., Микроэкономика 2015 № 6 С. 64-71
The article presents the results of a content analysis of customers’ satisfaction by quality of services of hotels and hostels in Moscow. The clients’ opinions left on the specialized tourist websites, collectors of consumers’ opinions, formed research base for this content analysis. The author has constructed the multiple regression equation, which characterizes the cumulative influence ...
Added: January 25, 2016
Kharkhurin A. V., Yagolkovskiy S. R., Creativity Research Journal 2019 Vol. 31 No. 3 P. 342-348
The study continues the exploration of the contribution of creative perception to creative potential. Creative potential was operationalized as divergent thinking and measured by the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults. Creative perception was operationalized as a preference for complexity and asymmetry and was assessed by a standard Barron-Welsh Art Scale. Sixty-five undergraduate college students participated ...
Added: October 21, 2019
Tekic Z., Tekic A., Todorovic V., Procedia Engineering 2015 Vol. 100 P. 400-407
This paper outlines the principles of modelling and designing a laboratory for ideas, an innovative solution dedicated to the development of creativity and creative problem solving skills in an engineering context. Reflecting the objectives, this paper defines the connection between creativity and engineering, adopting them as a single mindset, and describes how creativity should be ...
Added: January 20, 2021
Logacheva E., Plakhotnik M. S., Industrial and Commercial Training 2021 Vol. 53 No. 3 P. 237-249
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of humor work climate on innovative work behavior of back-office employees in the banking industry in Russia.Data was collected via an online survey that included scales to measure humor climate and innovative work behavior. The survey was distributed electronically among employees of one department of ...
Added: January 27, 2021