Diverse teams may potentiate greater creativity through divergent thinking. Yet research suggests these teams face a dilemma: the very features that make them promising are associated with persistent communication challenges that threaten their effectiveness. We turn to the literature on dialectical tensions to argue that a process of oscillation, consisting of repeated alternation between moments of divergence, emphasizing the differentiation of perspectives, and moments of convergence, emphasizing integrating ideas to produce coordination, may mobilize the tension between differentiation and integration effectively. We explore the utility of our framework by applying it to the experiences of a diverse cohort of researchers who engaged in a purposefully designed oscillatory process to generate research projects related to climate resilience. Our multimethod evaluation of this case indicates that oscillation was effective for creative idea generation. This work contributes to both practice and scholarship in interdisciplinary teamwork support, creativity, and organizations.

多元化的团队可以通过不同的思维来增强创造力。然而研究表明，这些团队面临两难境地：使他们充满希望的特质与持续威胁他们有效性的沟通挑战有关。我们转向有关辩证张力的文献来论证，振荡过程由发散时刻之间的反复交替（强调观点的分化）和融合时刻（强调整合思想以产生协调性）组成，可能动员了分化与紧张之间的张力。有效整合。通过将其应用到各种各样的研究人员的经验中，我们探索了该框架的效用，这些研究人员专门设计了振荡过程以生成与气候弹性相关的研究项目。我们对这种情况的多方法评估表明，振荡对于产生创意非常有效。这项工作有助于跨学科团队合作，创造力和组织方面的实践和奖学金。