The effect of lateral thinking training on innovative-adaptive cognition style

• Main Author: Vollmer, Craige Owen
• Other Authors: Kellerman, A M
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2014
• Subjects: Industrial and Organisational Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8373

Bibliography: leaves 70-73 === Lateral thinking has become an important topic in business and one of the apparent solutions to the dilemma of acquiring more creativity in the organisation has been to train employees in lateral thinking. This study had three objectives. To determine whether delegates attending lateral thinking training acquired more lateral thinking skills and knowledge than those without this training. To determine whether lateral thinking training impacted on style of thinking and to determine whether preferred styles of thinking facilitated the acquisition of lateral thinking skills. An experimental group was trained in lateral thinking. Subjects were tested on their lateral thinking skills before and after training. Subjects were also tested to assess their cognitive style before training and six months thereafter. A control group was tested in a similar fashion.