Social-emotional Relationships as an Incentive for Creating New Knowledge Martina

Abstract

Change is the most significant factor influencing our lives and dominating the world we live in. There are rapid changes emerging from all spheres of human activities. The complexity and pace of change, which is difficult to handle by an individual, demand the need for creative team work. The global market encourages the need to develop new products, new solutions, new services, which all require creativity.Moreover, creativity can be developed where mutual effects, high flexibility and speed of learning, collegial friendship and collegial inner culture are present. The aim of our research is to establish if the reason why team work is not more popular can lie in the high number of group members. We administered questionnaires, which were filled in by 172 employees who cooperated in different organizational units of a medium-sized company. From calculations based on the group cohesion index, we established that the number of isolated individuals in larger groups is higher than in smaller groups. We designed a model of improvements to assist a company’s management with improving the quality of operations.