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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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What Makes Teams Work: Group Effectiveness Research from the Shop Floor to the Executive Suite
Susan G. Cohen,Diane E. Bailey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a heuristic framework illustrating recent trends in the literature depicts team effectiveness as a function of task, group, and organization design factors, environmental factors, internal processes, external processes, and group psychosocial traits.
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Why Differences Make a Difference: A Field Study of Diversity, Conflict and Performance in Workgroups:
TL;DR: A multimethod field study of 92 workgroups explored the influence of three types of workgroup diversity (social category diversity, value diversity, and informational diversity) and two moderators.
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The influence of shared mental models on team process and performance.
TL;DR: The influence of teammates' shared mental models on team processes and performance was tested using 56 undergraduate dyads who "flew" a series of missions on a personal-computer-based flight-combat simulation and illustrated that both shared-team- and task-based mental models related positively to subsequent team process and performance.
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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Work Groups and Teams
TL;DR: There is a solid foundation for concluding that there is an emerging science of team effectiveness and that findings from this research foundation provide several means to improve team effectiveness.
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Cognition and corporate governance: Understanding boards of directors as strategic decision making groups
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model of board processes by integrating the literature on boards of directors with group dynamics and workgroup effectiveness, and the resulting model illuminates the complexity of board dynamics and paves the way for future empirical research that expands and refines our understanding of what makes boards effective.
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When Rewards Are Scarce: Equal or Equitable Distributions?
TL;DR: This paper examined the influence of reward scarcity on individual allocation preferences in performance-differentiated three-person groups and found that when rezairds are insufficient to fulfill pay expectations, actors are less likely to make self-interested distributions.
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Task-Focused Self-Disclosure: Effects on Group Cohesiveness, Commitment to Task, and Productivity
TL;DR: In this article, a total of 144 college undergraduates were randomly assigned to groups offour and received either a self-disclosure or a placebo treatment, and all groups completed a simple puzzle task as a measure of...
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Referent Sharing: Convergence within Workgroups of Perceptions of Equity and Referent Choice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of workgroup membership on individuals' perceptions of equity and choice of referent, and found that work group membership does not influence either equity evaluations or referent choice for job complexity or supervisory behavior.
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The Dynamic of the Group Shadow in Intergroup Relations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the notion that members of a group unconsciously displace the shadow of the group onto other groups to reduce feelings of internal conflict and threat within the group.