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Five Years of Groups Research: What We Have Learned and What Needs to Be Addressed

Kenneth L. Bettenhausen
- 01 Jun 1991 - 
- Vol. 17, Iss: 2, pp 345-381
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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.
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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.

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What Makes Teams Work: Group Effectiveness Research from the Shop Floor to the Executive Suite

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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Social Cohesion as Determined by the Levels and Types of Involvement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the position that all behavior is a result of individual-group interaction and that the individual's initiation and socialization into the most primary and universal of groups, the family, serves as a model for understanding the social learning process.
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Effects of Leadership Training During Wilderness Camping

TL;DR: The authors found that leaders who emerged from taskoriented small groups tended to have communicative functions characterized as &dquo; goal-directed, direction-giving, summarizing and self-assured.
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Learned helplessness and the generality of social loafing

TL;DR: This paper found that social loafing was not associated with subsequent problem-solving difficulties or with sad affect, and they reported an experiment consistent with their argument, showing that college students working in a group performed more poorly at a word-generating task than subjects working by themselves.