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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"group effectiveness"”.
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Style of Rule Enforcement and Group Effectiveness
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An Empirical Study of Group Stewardship and Learning: Implications for Work Group Effectiveness
This research studies the effects of group stewardship and group learning on permanent work groups performing the core work and service processes in their organizations. Stewardship has been proposed as a potentially significant form of intrinsic motivation that causes people to act collectively in …
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Nursing-Related Factors Influencing Medication Error Incidence On Medical Surgical Units
… was to examine the relationship between work group effectiveness, practice environment, workload, nursing, contextual factors and medication error incidence on medical-surgical units. The Quality Health Outcomes model served as the overarching framework for the study. Multifactorial …
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Sales and Operations Planning: A Performance Framework
… to test a model of S&OP performance grounded in group effectiveness theory. Using a survey-based approach, perspectives were captured from S&OP team members across a wide cross-section of industries representing sales and operations functions. The results of statistical analysis indicate that …
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Relationship of selected factors to the facilitation of interagency teamwork within the Roanoke Valley Council of Community Services
… processes--goals, communication, leadership, and group effectiveness--of the RVCCS affect interagency teamwork? 2. How do the agency partners perceive what the role of the Council should be? 3. How do certain characteristics such as agency mission, funding source, clientele income level, program …
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A Qualitative Study to Examine The Effectiveness of a Citizen Advisory Committee
The question of advisory group effectiveness continues to be a topic for discussion and research. As these groups have been organized to study and give recommendations on a diversity of issues, questions have arisen in relationship to their ability to impact educational decision making. The purpose …
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The contribution of learning styles to the functioning of writing groups at the high school level
… styles contribute to the dynamics of writing groups and the effects of those groups on the development of writing maturity in two classes of sophomores at a mid-sized midwestern rural high school. Students' learning styles were assessed through testing with the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory. …
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The possible impact of the organisation on the effectiveness of workplace learning
… learning activities. 2) For this particular group, effectiveness is also related to the level of synergy they feel exists between the workplace learning programme, the organisation and themselves.
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Exploring the Impact of God Schema on Equal Opportunity Climate and Related Indicators of Organizational Effectiveness
… (EO) climate and indicators of organizational effectiveness (OE). The first aim of this research was to investigate the impact of God schema (i.e., God schema patterns) on EO climate (i.e., collective EO climate patterns). The second aim of this research was to explore the impact of God schema, …
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Generating group agreement in cooperative computer-mediated groups: Towards an integrative model of group interaction
… of generating agreement in computer-mediated groups. The key entities of group interaction are proposed to be the task, the other individuals, and the group. Extending this three way categorisation across the input-process-output framework suggests an integrative model with three processes …
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Motivation and productivity in small, task-oriented groups
… the interactional styles of individuals in groups (Johnson, McDonald, & George, 1984). Three styles were identified. These were Team Motivation (TM), Prominence Motivation (PM), and Affiliation Motivation (AM). TM scores have been used successfully to predict helping behavior among group …
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An exploratory study of role behavior within interdisciplinary teams in a residential facility for the mentally retarded
… on the following nine variables associated with group behavior: (1) group effectiveness; (2) leader approachability; (3) mutual influence; (4) personal involvement and participation; (5) intragroup trust versus intragroup competition; (6) worth of the meeting; (7) submission to versus rebellion …
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TAME Health: Testing Activity Monitors’ Effect on Health
… conducted a 12-week intervention to compare the effectiveness of 5 A’s counseling and self-control with an EAM or a pedometer. Primary care patients (n=40) were eligible for the study if they were 55-74 years of age, inactive, overweight or obese, in good health, and had access to a smart device. …
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Transforming collaborative learning environments: investigating the role augmented virtuality has in measuring collaboration in educational environments
… students contribute less, can negatively impact group effectiveness and learning outcomes, which can be a result of misunderstandings, miscommunications, or issues with group dynamics rather than deliberate intent [34]. This project provides background on the current approaches to collaborative …
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Collaborative planning of interdisciplinary experiences : a case study at the middle school level
… utilizing the Hackman and Oldham (1980) model of group effectiveness as a heuristic for understanding the group processes. The results of this study raise questions about the preeminence of the "interdisciplinary thematic unit" in middle school rhetoric. The team developed a conception of …
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Developing Guidelines for Designing Child Safety Printed Educational Materials: A User-Centered Approach
… were used as treatments (15 participants per group). Effectiveness of the intervention was tested by assessing three variables, intent to purchase (revealed that when intent was high purchase was high), perceived control of purchasing (revealed that when perceived control was high purchase was …