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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Group performance"”.
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Some effects of certain communication patterns upon group performance
Thesis (Ph.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics, 1949.
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The Effect of Decision Aids on Work Group Performance
Organizations increasingly use work groups to perform process improvement tasks. Little research exists about groups assigned complete tasks such as process improvement which involves completing all group processes, such as: generating, selecting, negotiating, and executing. This research tested …
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The development and persistence of normative standards in group performance
… processing) of information usage would develop. Groups' relatively greater adherence to these standards was predicted. Jurors were placed under accountability pressures on one of the two last cases. Analysis of amounts and rates of information processed indicated groups' poor information …
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Design of a motivational model to enhance volunteer student group performance
… to managers seeking to improve overall team performance. Furthermore, motivation has been my greatest challenge as team manager of the MIT Motorsports Formula SAE team. This group is composed of volunteer students dedicating their time for an extra-curricular activity. This thesis serves to …
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Technology as a Leadership Context: An Examination of Technostress and Group Performance
… the relationship between technostress and group performance, the cognitive resource (CR) theory of leadership was used as the guiding theoretical framework. CR theory posits stress as a moderator between leader attributes – such as directive behavior, intellectual abilities, experience, …
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Mutual Information as a Predictor of Group Performance: Application to Soccer Teams
Predictors of group performance based on observational data about interactions among group members could be useful for many organizations. However, existing methods to formulate such predictors tend to be complicated or miss key relationships in the data. We demonstrate that a simple measure …
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Investigation of team dynamics and group performance in the product engineering process
… engineering team can strongly influence the performance of its members and the quality of the product. The 2.009 Product Engineering Processes class provides an opportunity for investigating the relationships between group dynamics and performance as the student groups work with customers and …
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Brainstorming in a Naturalistic Setting: A Comparison of Nominal and Real Group Performance
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Collective Efficacy as a Predictor of Group Performance: The Roles of Group Task and Member KSAs
The results of this study indicate that performance possibility beliefs may be at least in part determined by members' perceptions of the skills present in their group. Limitations of the study are discussed, and possible avenues for future research are outlined.
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The relationship between multiple identity attributes and diversity, and individual decision making and group performance: experimental evidence.
… individual behavior and team and organizational performance is a rapidly growing field of study. Another growing field of study involves the effect of identity-based behavior on individual, team, and organizational outcomes. Diversity and identity, although related to each other, have not been …
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The effects of group membership and task experience on asynchronous computer-mediated group performance, group competencies and group member reactions
… dependent on the permeation of virtual work groups throughout the organizational structure. In this era of distributed work, it is imperative to determine which factors affect the efficiency and effectiveness of asynchronous computer-mediated groupwork. Two factors are identified in the …
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Is there folly when worker A is more productive than worker B? : examining heterogeneous responses to individual and group performance pay
… ability levels respond in different ways to performance pay, there is little research documenting such a relationship. In this study, I examine how employee ability moderates the effectiveness of two types of incentives in a field experiment with warehouse workers at Picklnc, a large …
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Sensor-based organizational design and engineering
… of information such as e-mail, surveys, and performance data in order to design interventions aimed at improving organizational outcomes. The proposed system combines sensor measurements, pattern recognition algorithms, simulation and optimization techniques, social network analysis, and …
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Improving behavioral decision making in operations and food safety management
… information integration, and the resulting group performance in collective decision making. We first investigate three different conditions on group discussion and find that while suggesting a process (without enforcement) significantly enhances information sharing, enforcing the process is …
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Authentic leadership in sports teams
… and analyzed authentic leaders on sports teams. Group cohesion was also assessed. The purpose was to determine whether authentic leadership would lead to performance when mediated by team cohesion and trust. Survey analyses were used to assess several teams. Results indicated that sports teams …
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Erfolgsfaktoren zur Implementierung eines erfolgsabhängigen Vergütungssystems für Innendienstmitarbeiterinnen und Innendienstmitarbeiter von Lebensversicherungsunternehmen
… factors for a successful implementation of a performance-based compensation in the life insurance industry in Germany. This investigation was conducted by means of qualitative social research. The target group of this examination were employees from various German life insurance companies …
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Two computer-graphics variations (animated vs still) and their impact on the knowledge and performance of cognitive-behavioral skills: fire-safety training
… attainment of knowledge, Each of the training groups was compared to a no-treatment control group. Performance on dependent measures was assessed prior to and immediately following training. Hypotheses predicted that the behavioral and animated graphics conditions would produce the greatest …
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The Nonconscious Antecedents of Group Processes: An Experimental Analysis of the Priming of Group Beliefs
… lens to one of management's most studied areas, group processes. This dissertation proposes a model that accounts for the influence of priming on group processes. We conducted two studies measuring expectations regarding a specific work group (Study 1) and perceptions of group processes and …
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