Dr. I.J. (Inga) Hoever

Inga Hoever
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Former ERIM PhD Candidate
Field: Organisation
Former Associate Member ERIM
Field: Organisation
Member ERIM
Field: Organisation
Affiliated since 2008

Inga Hoever is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management of Rotterdam School of Management. Her research focuses on questions related to teams and workplace creativity. She is particularly interested in how individual employees and team members relate to each other through processes like perspective taking, feedback, and information elaboration and how these processes help employees realize the potential of the diversity present among their co-workers or team members.

PhD Track Diversity and Creativity: In search of synergy

Hoever’s dissertation investigates the conditions and processes that enable teams to develop more creative solutions and optimally use their informational resources for higher creativity. Whereas teams, especially those composed of members with different task-relevant information and perspectives, are considered a particularly viable means to the end of higher creativity, systematic research on the factors that facilitate team creativity and the processes conducive to it is sparse and its findings remain fragmented to date.

The three empirical studies included in this dissertation contribute to a more complete understanding of how teams achieve creative outcomes by addressing different aspects of this question. Hoever’s findings highlight that other-focused behaviours such as perspective taking and mutual feedback between team members represent important mechanisms to bring out the potential of team diversity for team creativity. Furthermore, on the basis of an in-depth behavioural observation of the teams throughout their creative process, she was able to develop a more nuanced understanding of the processes that underlie these observed effects. This analysis yields converging evidence for the importance of information elaboration as a precursor of higher creativity in diverse teams but not for other processes frequently suggested to transmit the benefits of diversity when they occur. Finally, the reported research points to the differential impact of formal external interventions in shaping team processes and information processing mechanisms in teams with diverse informational resources.

Together, the reported research has important implications for future work on team creativity, diversity, and team processes. With regards to team creativity and diversity the results call into question the straightforward nature of the frequently proposed link between diversity and creativity and highlight a number of important moderators of this effect. Moreover, the findings indicate that the relationship between creativity and its antecedents at the team level do not fully mirror the effects observed at the individual level of analysis. Finally, they direct attention to the need to systematically investigate the extent to which diverse and homogeneous teams react differently to common managerial interventions such as feedback.

Keywords
diversity, creativity, teams, perspective taking, feedback, behavioural observation, team processes, team information processing
Time frame
2008 - 2012

Publications

Article (13)

  • Academic (11)

    • Rishani, M., Schouten, ME., & Hoever, I. (2024). Navigating Multiple Team Membership: A Review and Redirection of its Influence on Effectiveness Outcomes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(1), Article e12899. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12899

    • Hoever, I., Betancourt, NE., Chen, G., & Zhou, J. (2023). How others light the creative spark: Low power accentuates the benefits of diversity for individual inspiration and creativity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 176, Article 104248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104248

    • Hoever, I., & Zhou, J. (2023). Understanding the dynamic interplay between actor and context for creativity: Progress and Desirable Directions. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 10, 109-135. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-120920-055457

    • Vongswasdi, P., Leroy, H., Shemla, M., Hoever, I., & Khattab, J. (2023). Influencing diversity beliefs through a personal testimonial, promotion-focused approach. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2664

    • Leroy, H., Buengeler, C., Veestraeten, M., Shemla, M., & J. Hoever, I. (2022). Fostering Team Creativity Through Team-Focused Inclusion: The Role of Leader Harvesting the Benefits of Diversity and Cultivating Value-In-Diversity Beliefs. Group and Organization Management, 47(4), 798-839. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011211009683

    • Leroy, H., Hoever, I., Vangronsvelt, K., & Van den Broeck, A. (2021). How team averages in authentic living and perspective-taking personalities relate to team information elaboration and team performance: Authenticity, perspective taking, team information elaboration, and team performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106(3), 364-376. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000499

    • Hoever, I., Zhou, J., & Knippenberg, D. (2018). Different strokes for different teams: The contingent effects of positive and negative feedback on the creativity of informationally homogeneous and diverse teams. Academy of Management Journal, 61(6), 2159-2181. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2016.0642, https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2016.0642

    • Zhou, J., & Hoever, I. (2014). Research on Workplace Creativity: A Review and Redirection. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1(1), 333-359. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-031413-091226

    • Hoever, I., van Knippenberg, D., Ginkel, W., & Barkema, H. (2012). Fostering team creativity: Perspective taking as key to unlocking diversity¿s potential. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97(5), 982-996. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029159

    • Richter, T., Zwaan, R., & Hoever, I. (2009). Acquiring experiential traces in word-referent learning. Memory & Cognition, 87, 1187-1196. https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.37.8.1187

    • Schroeder, S., Richter, T., & Hoever, I. (2008). Getting a picture that is both accurate and stable: Situation models and epistemic validation. Journal of Memory and Language, 59(3), 237-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2008.05.001

  • Professional (2)

Chapter (4)

  • Academic (4)

    • van Knippenberg, D., & Hoever, I. J. (2023). Diversity and creativity in organizations. In R. Reiter-Palmon, & S. Hunter (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Individual and Group Level Influences (2 ed., pp. 291-302). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-91840-4.00002-5

    • Hoever, I., & Zhou, J. (2021). Team creativity and innovation. In Handbook of Research on Creativity and Innovation

    • Hoever, I. J., & van Knippenberg, D. (2020). How diversity promotes team creativity: Two bumpy roads to collective inspiration. In Creative Success in Teams (pp. 81-99). Elsevier Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819993-0.00005-9

    • van Knippenberg, D., & Hoever, I. (2017). Team diversity and team creativity: A categorization-elaboration perspective. In R. Reiter-Palmon (Ed.), Team creativity Oxford University Press.

Conference proceeding (3)

  • Academic (3)

    • Rishani, M., Hoever, I., van Dierendonck, D., & Anantha Ramakrishnan, P. (2023). Multiple Team Membership (MTM) and the Future of Work: How MTM Experiences Affect Knowledge Workers. In Academy of Management Proceedings https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2023.15410symposium

    • Rishani, M., Hoever, I., & van Dierendonck, D. (2022). Team Asynchronicity: A Costly Remedy to Facilitate Team Members’ Multi-teaming. In Academy of Management Proceedings Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.10649abstract

    • Rishani, M., Hoever, I., & van Dierendonck, D. (2020). Multi-Teaming: An Opportunity or a Threat for Team Creativity? A Temporal & Informational Exploration. In 80th Annual meeting of the Academy of Management (1 ed., Vol. 2020) https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.18137abstract

Doctoral Thesis (1)

  • Internal (1)

    • Hoever, I. (2012). Diversity and creativity: in search of synergy. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).

Paper (3)

  • Academic (3)

    • Betancourt, N., Hoever, I., Kuilman, J., & Wezel, F. C. (2013). Evaluating negative evaluation: An experimental investigation of category spanning. 1199-1204. Paper presented at 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2013, Orlando, United States. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2013.209

    • Calvard, T. S., & Hoever, I. (2012). Differentiating differences: Conceptualizing team diversity using continuous dimensions. 911-916. Paper presented at 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2012, Boston, United States. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2012.96

    • Hoever, I. J., Van Knippenberg, D., Van Ginkel, W. P., & Barkema, H. G. (2010). Fostering team creativity: Perspective taking as key to unlocking diversity's potential. Paper presented at 70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research, AOM 2010, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Web publication/site (1)

  • Professional (1)

    • Heese, C., Grgic, J. M., Hoever, I., Shemla, M., Buengeler, C., & Leroy, H. (2023). Wie Führungskräfte effektiv Inklusion und Kreativität in diversen Teams fördern können. Web publication/site, PERSONALquarterly.

Additional activities (4)

  • Journal of Applied Psychology (Journal)

    Publication Peer-review (Academic)

  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (Journal)

    Editorial work (Academic)

  • Journal of Applied Psychology (Journal)

    Editorial work (Academic)

  • Academy of Management Journal (Journal)

    Editorial work (Academic)

PhD Tracks (9)

The effects of contemporary team arrangements on workplace creativity
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Mayssa Rishani
  • Time frame: 2017 -
Visionary Leadership and the Pursuit of Organizational Visions
  • Role: Daily Supervisor
  • PhD Candidate: Begüm Bilgin
  • Time frame: 2019 -
Accelerating Leadership Development: An evidence-based perspective
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Pisitta Vongswasdi
  • Time frame: 2016 - 2020
PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Rowan Moelijker
  • Time frame: 2021 -
Leading for Performance in Adversity Managing Failure, Negative Emotions, and Self-Threats
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Erik Waltré
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2022
Essays on Consumers and Numbers
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Manissa Gunadi
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2022
PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Claudia Heese
  • Time frame: 2023 -
PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Miheer Prafulla Agnihotri
  • Time frame: 2023 -
Making sense of sensitivity in the workplace: Coping with contextual information in innovation and social networks
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Qi Zhang
  • Time frame: 2017 - 2023

Event (1)

2012
October
12
Diversity and Creativity: In search of synergy
PhD Defence
As: Speaker

Address

Visiting address

Office: Mandeville Building T10-47
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

Research Initiatives

Latest publication

Article

Rishani, M., Schouten, ME., & Hoever, I. (2024). Navigating Multiple Team Membership: A Review and Redirection of its Influence on Effectiveness Outcomes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(1), Article e12899. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12899

Supervisory Team

Wendy van Ginkel
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
  • Co-promotor
Steffen Giessner
Steffen Giessner
Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Change
  • Member Doctoral Committee
Jing Zhou
  • Member Doctoral Committee
Daan Van Knippenberg
Daan Van Knippenberg
Professor of Organizational Behavior
  • Promotor
Harry Barkema
Professor of Innovation Management
  • Member Doctoral Committee