Category: Creativity and Innovation

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What does good recruitment look like?

Welcome back to our 2025 ‘Showcase’ series, where we explain how occupational psychology can help you tackle a range of business or HR challenges. We started by thinking about the value of career planning tools. In this instalment, we’re moving onto recruitment. Good recruitment can boost productivity, create effective and…

Creating an Innovation ‘A’ Team in 2019

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos are all well-known innovators whose revolutionary contributions within technology, commerce and communications touch our lives on a daily basis. While relatively few organisations can boast an individual trailblazing Steve, Bill or Jeff, it is perfectly possible for teams to foster innovative thinking. Early 2019…
WPG Director, Dr Maire Kerrin

WPG Director, Dr Maire Kerrin, invited to present a talk on Innovation

WPG Director, Dr Maire Kerrin, invited to present a talk on Innovation at ICLCity2016 Conference, entitled ‘Individual-level predictors of workplace innovation: Implications for selection and development’. To promote innovative behaviours, organisations need to reliably identify and capitalise on the innovative potential of their employees. Therefore, the individual characteristics and behaviours…