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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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Work Pressure as a Determinant of Work Group Behavior
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between newly emphasized production pressures and the internal dynamics of ongoing work groups, focusing on cohesive group behavior and the role that supervising a group in the production process.
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Unhappy expatriates at work: subjective ill-being and work outcomes
Jan Selmer,Jakob Lauring +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an exploratory study of 428 expatriate academics and found that subjective ill-being (SIB) had a strong negative association with work adjustment, work performance, work effectiveness, and job satisfaction.
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Work Redesign: Rhetoric vs Reality
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the growing popularity of self-managing teams as an approach to work design in contemporary organizations and concluded that self-management teams are not necessarily required in all organizational contexts and that there are potential (though not insurmountable) difficulties arising from their use.
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Boardroom decision-making : determinants of effectiveness
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify characteristics of boardroom decision-making as being either independent process or behaviour variables, and provide fresh insight into what determines effective governance, and advocate knowledge maximization as the most likely theoretical premise on which an all encompassing theory of corporate governance should be advanced.
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WHAT’S THE BEST ROLE FOR A ROBOT? - Cybernetic Models of Existing and Proposed Human-Robot Interaction Structures
TL;DR: Cybernetic models are used to critique existing models and provide revised models of interaction that delineate the paths of social feedback generated by the robot.
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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that there is a strong functional tie between opinions and abilities in humans and that the ability evaluation of an individual can be expressed as a comparison of the performance of a particular ability with other abilities.
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Images of Organization
TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the history of the use of metaphor in organizational life can be found, including the origins of mechanistic organization, the role of human beings in the management of organizations, and the evolution of the human brain in the formation of an organization.
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Development of the Job Diagnostic Survey
TL;DR: The Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) as discussed by the authors was developed to diagnose existing jobs to determine if (and how) they might be redesigned to improve employee motivation and productivity, and to evaluate the effects of job changes on employees.
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Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations
TL;DR: In this paper, the scope and range of ethnocentrism in group behavior is discussed. But the focus is on the individual and not on the group as a whole, rather than the entire group.
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
TL;DR: In this article, Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students, in addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction.