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Task (project management)
About: Task (project management) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 71123 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1155032 citations. The topic is also known as: problem.
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TL;DR: The results showed that those subjects, who reached two or more incorrect conclusions, were unable, or unwilling to test their hypotheses, and the implications are discussed in relation to scientific thinking.
Abstract: This investigation examines the extent to which intelligent young adults seek (i) confirming evidence alone (enumerative induction) or (ii) confirming and discontinuing evidence (eliminative induct...
1,748 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the merit of the distinction made by W. C. Borman and S. J. Motowidlo (1993) between task performance and contextual performance.
Abstract: This study tests the merit of the distinction made by W. C. Borman and S. J. Motowidlo (1993) between task performance and contextual performance. Supervisors rated 421 U.S. Air Force mechanics on their task performance, contextual performance, and overall performance. Data on length of air force experience, ability, training performance, and personality were also available for many of these mechanics. Results showed that both task performance and contextual performance contribute independently to overall performance. Experience is more highly correlated with task performance than with contextual performance, and personality variables are more highly correlated with contextual performance than with task performance. These results support the distinction between task performance and contextual performance and confirm that performance, at least as judged by supervisors, is multidimensional
1,704 citations
TL;DR: Many countries have adopted the form of democracy with little of its substance as mentioned in this paper, which makes the task of classifying regimes more difficult,but also more important, making it more difficult to classify regimes.
Abstract: Many countries have adopted the form of democracy with little of its substance.This makes the task of classifying regimes more difficult,but also more important.
1,700 citations
TL;DR: The authors found that intragroup trust moderates the relationship between task conflict and relationship conflict in 70 top management teams, and infer that trust is a key to gaining the benefits of task conflict without suffering the costs of relationship conflict.
Abstract: Task conflict is usually associated with effective decisions, and relationship conflict is associated with poor decisions. The 2 conflict types are typically correlated in ongoing groups, however, which creates a prescriptive dilemma. Three explanations might account for this relationship--misattribution of task conflict as relationship conflict, harsh task conflict tactics triggering relationship conflict, and misattribution of relationship conflict as task conflict. The authors found that intragroup trust moderates the relationship between task conflict and relationship conflict in 70 top management teams. This result supports the "misattribution of task conflict" explanation. The authors also found a weak effect that is consistent with the argument that tactical choices drive the association between the 2 conflict types. We infer that trust is a key to gaining the benefits of task conflict without suffering the costs of relationship conflict.
1,692 citations
TL;DR: Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex/medial superior frontal cortex and bilateral anterior insula/frontal operculum showed reliable start-cue and sustained activations across all or nearly all tasks and carried the most reliable error-related signals in a subset of tasks, suggesting that the regions form a "core" task-set system.
1,635 citations