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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Work groups"”.
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Transactive Memory and Sharedness in Work Groups
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.
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The Leadership Process and Its Effects on Self-Managed Work Groups in American Manufacturing Companies
… against the feelings and attitudes of over 100 work team members from various manufacturing companies in the United States. The intent was to prove or disprove this model of leadership within these work teams--to examine the process of leadership at work at the lowest level in organizations, …
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USING COLLABORATIVE WORK GROUPS TO IMPROVE TEACHERS USE OF EBPS FOR STUDENTS WITH DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR
… principal participated in collaborative work groups biweekly for a total of 12 weeks. The teachers chose the EBPs that they were interested in implementing, and the collaborative work groups served as a forum for learning about the EBPs. Data sources included coding and thematic analysis …
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The Measurement of Valuing Diversity: Construction and Use of a New Scale for Work Groups
… a team context by testing a conceptual model of work group diversity. The new scale, called Teamwork: Valuing Individual Differences (TVID), was developed using behavioral constructs gleaned from the literature and more specific behavioral examples extracted from interviews with a sample of 96 …
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Empowered work groups: Conceptual framework and empirical assessment of empowerment processes and outcomes in organizations
This paper proposes a conceptual model of work group empowerment and describes a study that was designed to evaluate the model. The conceptual model specifies directional relations among the antecedents, dimensions, and outcomes of empowered work groups. The model hypothesized that the effects of …
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The effects of training in feedback on managers' attributional bias and perceived effectiveness of their work groups
… and employees can be dysfunctional in the work setting. Resolution of these problems often requires giving feedback that is specific, empathic, and in a spirit of inquiry. This research tested the effects of a learning intervention designed to intercept attributional bias and untested …
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Work groups and the physical environment: The combined influence of environmental stimuli and task complexity on group process and effectiveness criteria
… hypotheses developed from two theoretical frameworks (i.e., the environmental stimulation and absorption perspectives) were examined for how such stimuli may affect group task process and effectiveness criteria depending on the information processing demands of the group's task. Competing …
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Relationship between participation in a self-directed work group and employee communication competence and apprehension: An exploratory study
Self-directed work groups are a new innovation in the workplace involving small group interaction. A by-product of working in a group environment is often increased communication between group members. This study investigated members' perceptions of their own communication competence and …
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System for the online analysis of distributed projects
… tool to assess and analyze the properties of work groups in order to identify key features which could either facilitate or hinder performance. The described system creates a robust interface for researchers and project managers to calculate statistics, analyze, visualize, and compare …
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Organizational development and learning technology in the workplace: the migration of university reporting tools
… technology, the Cognos reporting tool, within working groups at a mid-sized University, in southern New Jersey. In this study, I intended to understand how these two work groups accomplished this change on an individual, team, and organizational level, while they achieved success through …
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Multidisciplinary rehabilitation in prison : a values, interests and power analysis
… therapists into prisons and created two distinct work groups with no historical working culture. As research suggests that rehabilitation works best when officers and therapists are united, the present investigation involved interviews with twenty three therapists and twenty one prison officers. …
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Causes of dysfunctional behaviour within self-directed work teams : a case study
… with the introduction of self-directed work teams. In addition to carrying out the work, SDWT members make decisions that are traditionally the jurisdiction of first line supervisors. This method of management and work planning can lead to added stress and behaviour not anticipated from …
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Doorways and walls: Peer coaching as a means to change instructional practice
1 PDF file (iv, 132 pages)
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The effect of telecommuting on the temporal patterns of managers and employees
… to employment has expanded the prevalence of teleworking as an employment arrangement in recent years. The expansion of teleworking employment arrangements has significant implications on organizations, management, and the teleworkers themselves. Of particular interest are how teleworking has …
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A SIMD architecture for hard real-time systems
… a real-time data-parallel architecture. In this work I present Sim-D: a wide-SIMD architecture for hard real-time systems. Similar to GPUs, Sim-D performs hardware strip-mining to schedule the work for a compute kernel in entities called work-groups. Sim-D schedules the work for each work-group …
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Demonstration of a Method for the Development of a Team Classification System
… and Altman system is based on a theoretical framework, includes a distinct set of variables drawn from its underlying theory, is applicable to a wide variety of teams and work groups, and has relevance for both research and practical purposes. The Sundstrom and Altman taxonomy suggests that there …
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Understanding Collaborative Writing of Technical Proposals with a Process/product Model
<p>Group work creates concerns with respect to performance, collaboration, and conflict management. Writing technical proposals creates appropriate settings for gaining insight into work group efficiencies and project conflict. The research involved different work groups preparing responses to …
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Teachers' Reflection on Inquiry-Oriented Instruction in Online Professional Development
… covering Abstract Algebra topics in online work groups developed to support teachers in implementing IOI. I analyze both reflection and enactment through the components of IOI characterized through the Instructional Triangle. Analysis of the teachers' reflections, viewed through their …
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Developing Teacher Cohesiveness: Exploring the School Leader's Role in Building a Cohesive Faculty
… team in reaching their goals. Studies examining groups within a variety of fields identify personal, leader, group and environmental factors as contributing to the development of group cohesion. This study applies these theoretical models of group cohesion to the world of education, identifying …
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Network governance for the provision of behavioral health services to the US Army
… treatment of PTSD and related conditions. This work focuses on the architecture and means of control over the existing arrangement of semi-independent enterprises, organized into functional work groups that necessarily collaborate to provide a full spectrum of behavioral health services to …
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