Jim Berry
Biography:
Jim Berry is a third year PhD student in Organizational Behavior. His research focuses on creativity, creative team composition, proactive behavior, and resistance to change issues. Dissertation work is shaping up around how people utilize evaluations on the usefulness and novelty of an idea to make overall judgments about creativity. This work will look to identify factors that influence the salience of the components of creativity. Additionally, Jim is looking at team composition and group synergy in brainstorming efforts. Extending off of both of these efforts, he is developing research on the mechanisms that reduce the resistance to change that would allow creative ideas to gain acceptance with an organization.
Contact Information:
office phone: (919) 962-3163
email: James_Berry@unc.edu
address:
Kenan-Flagler Business School
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
McColl Building, Campus Box 3490
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490