"Businesses battle to hire creative, productive employees. Management gurus have been happy to indulge that trend, offering all manner of "creativity courses." What if you could easily screen for greater creativity, during the hiring process? A new study, published by the American Psychological Association, offers a method. Looking at those who've lived in one country all their life, versus those who've lived abroad for spell, they found that the one-time expats were far more creative as a group. If you're looking for a creative employee, the best question you might ask could be: Have you lived abroad?
The study was led by William Maddux, a professor at the famed business school INSEAD, and Adam Galinsky, at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. They performed two tests with MBA students, and both showed that the longer the student lived abroad, the more likely they were to solve the problem."
If you want to read the whole article published by Cliff Kuang in Fast Company on 04/24/09, click here.
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