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Five Years of Groups Research: What We Have Learned and What Needs to Be Addressed
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In this paper, the authors report the principal findings of over 250 studies published between January, 1986 and October, 1989 that address the dynamics of small social groups, focusing on the fundamental tension between individuals and groups, how group members form a common understanding of their world, and how groups develop and change over time.About:
This article is published in Journal of Management.The article was published on 1991-06-01. It has received 566 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social group & Social loafing.read more
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Personality and team performance: implications for selecting successful product design teams
Susan L. Kichuk,Willi H. Wiesner +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a grant from the Innovation Research Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, was used for the development of a new method for the extraction of the structure of the human brain.
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Good practices in managing work-related indoor air problems : a psychosocial perspective
Marjaana Lahtinen,P. Huuhtanen,Kari Vähämäki,Erkki Kähkönen,Helena Mussalo-Rauhamaa,Kari Reijula +5 more
TL;DR: The following four factors best differentiated successful cases from impeded cases: extensive multiprofessional collaboration and participative action, systematic action and perseverance, investment in information and communication, and process thinking and learning.
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The internal structure of the unit performance construct as measured by the performance index (PI)
TL;DR: In this paper, the internal structure of the Performance Index was investigated in order to establish the interrelationships between the eight unit performance latent variables, and the results indicated satisfactory factor loadings on the measurement model.
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Designing a performance measurement system for a high technology virtual engineering team – a case study
Marla E. Hacker,Jonathan D. Lang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a performance measurement system was developed to focus the virtual engineering team on the key actions affecting performance instead of the issues getting in the way, and the measurement system linked the team's objectives to its mission and identified the critical actions associated with each objective.
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The History of Teamwork’s Societal Diffusion: A Multi-Method Review
Matthias Weiss,Martin Hoegl +1 more
TL;DR: In the literature, the notion of the ever-growing prevalence of teamwork is dominating as mentioned in this paper, and there has been a steadily increasing trajectory of the societal diffusion of and academic research on teamwork.
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Images of Organization
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Development of the Job Diagnostic Survey
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Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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