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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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Organizational Demography: The Differential Effects of Age and Tenure Distributions on Technical Communication
Todd Zenger,Barbara S. Lawrence +1 more
TL;DR: Although previous researchers have proposed organizational demography as an important determinant of communication, no one has tested this relationship directly as discussed by the authors, and distinctions between the i.i.d.
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Social Exchange: Advances In Theory And Research
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Progress in Small Group Research
TL;DR: The Revue de la litterature sur les petits groupes (ecologie, structure, composition, conflit, performance) as mentioned in this paper is a collection of petits groups.
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Understanding prosocial behavior, sales performance, and turnover: A group-level analysis in a service context.
TL;DR: In this article, a justification theory for analysing the comportement prosocial and the turnover volontaire of a group of consommateurs is presented. But, the analysis of comportements prosocial is limited.
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Marking time: predictable transitions in task groups
TL;DR: In this paper, a model of group development suggests that groups' attention to time and pacing is an important catalyst of their progress through creative projects, and participants' efforts to pace themselves were explored in depth, with special focus on a major transition in groups' approach toward their work at the midpoint of their allotted time.