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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Group Tasks"”.
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The predictive value of psychological type and self-monitoring on emergent leadership
… the revised Self-Monitoring scale, and four group tasks. After each task, subjects rated each other on perceived leadership. Results indicated that 73% of leadership ratings, and 54% of a rankings measure was stable and due to characteristics of the individual. The relationship between …
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Examining Student Engagement In The Academic Environment
… math, history, and science), and academic tasks (in-class: passive vs. active, out-of-class: homework, reading, academic writing, and creative writing). For many of the participants, the traits of conscientiousness and impulse control were related to low engagement. Participants with these …
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The Impact of Reward Structure on Project Team Effectiveness
… laboratory experiment. This experiment involved groups of students working as a team on a design problem. The independent variable is the type of reward structure, manipulated over three levels: interdependent (group), independent (individual) and mixed rewards (both group and individual). The …
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Evaluation of the influence of personality types on performance of shared tasks in a collaborative environment
… much attention in recent years. Developments in groupware technology, such as MERL’s Diamondtouch and Microsoft’s Surface, have presented us with new, challenging and exciting ways to carry out group tasks. However, these groupware technologies present us with a novel area of research in the field …
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The predictive value of psychological type and self-monitoring on leadership and leadership perceptions
… the revised Self-Monitoring scale, and four group tasks. After each task, subjects rated each other on perceived leadership. Results indicated that 65 percent of the variance in general leadership impressions, and 61 percent of the variance in perceived leadership behaviors was stable and due …
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The Impact of Big Five Personality Characteristics on Group Cohesion and Creative Task Performance
… in performance improvements. The types of tasks relegated to teams also affect performance, and it is equally important that group tasks are clearly defined. As such, the current study explores the impact of Big Five personality patterns on both group cohesiveness and group performance on …
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Medical Imaging Field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Identification of Specialities Within the Field
… and chi square. Factor analysis was used to group tasks performed by MRI technologists into factors to better identify emerging specialty areas within the MRI profession. Chi square was used to analyze the association between the tasks performed in (a) the employment setting, and (b) hospital …
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Investigating the role of personal attributes in leadership emergence
… with the emergence of leaders in small groups. Past research on leadership emergence has frequently examined the relationships between individual personal attributes and perceptions of leadership by group members following completion of a single group exercise. The present study extends …
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Selection, Training and Career Development of Naval Officers : A Long-Term Follow-Up Using Multivariate Techniques
… of candidates' behaviour in individual and group tasks and interview, performance in psychological tests, and headmasters' reports, and has remained essentially unchanged to the present day. 3. Selected candidates were given extensive training initially in general naval matters, later in …
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Does the medium matter: An investigation of process, performance, and affect in computer-mediated and face-to-face groups
… communication media and task characteristics on group interaction, performance, and satisfaction. McGrath's (1984) framework of group tasks and Daft and Lengel's (1984; 1986) theory of information richness were used as a basis to formulate and test the following premise: As tasks more equivocal, …
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The impact of open-plan office spatial components on the perceived human behaviour and level of collaboration: The United Arab Emirates
… to address the association between individual-group tasks perceived collaboration and office layouts. In order to explore further into the topic of workplace perceived collaboration, there are three primary objectives of this study that might help in achieving the research aim: First, establish …
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Shared Creativity and Flow in Dance Improvisation Practice
… processes and the role of flow experience in group dance improvisation. A literature review suggested that dancers associate high-quality performance with 'being in the flow', and that group flow is a peak experience when a group is performing at its highest level. The first study explored the …
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An exploratory study of expressing disagreement in ELF academic group discussion
In many academic contexts in the United Kingdom, group work is an important site of English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication. Group work can involve challenging pragmatic acts, and chief among these is, arguably, disagreement. The need to disagree amicably is important for two reasons: (1) to …
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Developer coordination in software engineering projects
… coordination in the literature, focusing on group awareness as an explicit and implicit coordination mechanism for overcoming challenges of complexity and distribution in software development projects; and, based on this re-examination, 3) to extend and validate the application of STC to …
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How does practice affect working memory? : The efficacy of adaptive-difficulty working memory training programs
… effects while in others the chosen assessment tasks are too similar to the trained tasks to be evidence for general working memory improvement. The potential for improved fluid intelligence and amelioration of deficits leading to developmental issues due to a working memory training …
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Group cohesion and collaborative information behaviour: An exploration of student experiences of university group work
… teams to accomplish intellectually demanding tasks. The advent of the World Wide Web, the advancements in communication technological tools and easy access to high volumes of information through the Web provide expanded capacity for individuals to work together and fulfil their shared goal but …