Download or read book Predicting Group Performance Using Cohesion and Social Network Density written by Frederick W. S. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emerald Handbook of Group and Team Communication Research written by Stephenson J. Beck and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the current research of group communication scholars, provides an overview of major foci in the discipline, and points toward possible trajectories for future scholarship. It establishes group communication’s central role within research on human behaviour and fosters an identity for group communication researchers.
Download or read book Assessment Analytics in Education written by Muhittin Sahin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Team Dynamics Over Time written by Eduardo Salas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the temporal adaptations of teams. An increase in the use of teams has led to more team research throughout the fields of cognitive science, human factors, organizational psychology, and behavioral science. This book serves as a resource to researchers who study teams, managers who lead teams, and those who work in teams.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Psychology Volume 1 written by Steve W. J. Kozlowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational psychology is the science of psychology applied to work and organizations. This is the first of two volumes which compiles knowledge in organizational psychology, encapsulates key topics of research and application, and summarizes important research findings.
Download or read book Team Cohesion written by Eduardo Salas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on Managing Groups and Teams provides a forum for truly novel ideas and emerging lines of inquiry across many group-related topics.
Download or read book The Role of Informal Social Interactions in Predicting Team Cohesion and Performance written by Sam Sinz and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where teamwork and performance are essential components of any organization, it is essential to understand the phenomena that lead to an effective and sustainable work environment. Organizations need to perform well to achieve their objectives. While most scholars agree that team cohesion is a precursor of team performance, this relationship has not been fully established. Furthermore, the antecedents of team cohesion are poorly understood. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the role of informal social interactions inside and outside the workplace in predicting team cohesion, and address gaps in the literature, in a quest for consensus on the relationship between team cohesion and team performance. Relying on the social identity theory, this paper develops eight hypotheses to shine light on the link between social interactions and team performance. Using survey data from 141 employees around the world, this empirical study obtains significant evidence of a positive relationship between informal interactions both inside and outside the workplace and team cohesion. The results of the analysis further confirm a positive relationship between team cohesion and team performance, and the mediating role of team cohesion. Managers should promote social interactions inside and outside the workplace amongst team members to increase team cohesion and performance. Focusing on the bigger picture, this thesis concludes with a presentation of the implications and limitations of the study. Specifically, the rise of virtual interactions in a post-pandemic society and the effects of national culture in the global landscape are discussed.
Download or read book Informed by Knowledge written by Kathleen L. Mosier and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or "fuse" disparate items of information into coherent knowledge. The chapters examine these processes across experts (e.g. global leaders, individuals in extreme environments, managers, police officers, pilots, commanders, doctors, inventors), across contexts (e.g. space and space analogs, corporate organizations, command and control, crisis and crowd management, air traffic control, the operating room, product development), and for both individual and team performance. Successful information integration is a key factor in the success of diverse endeavors, including team attempts to climb Mt. Everest, crowd control in the Middle East, and remote drilling operations. This volume is divided into four sections, each with a specific focus on an area of expert performance, resulting in a text that covers a wide range of useful information. These sections present well-researched discussions, such as: the management of complex situations in various fields and decision contexts; technological and training approaches to facilitate knowledge management by individual experts and expert teams; new or neglected perspectives in expert decision making; and the importance of ‘modeling’ expert performance through techniques and frameworks such as Cognitive Task Analysis, computational architectures based on the notion of causal belief mapping such as ‘Convince Me,’ or the data/frame model of sensemaking. The volume provides essential reading for researchers and practitioners of Naturalistic Decision Making and those who study Expertise; Organizational and Cognitive Psychologists; and researchers and students in Business and Engineering.
Download or read book Sharing Network Leadership written by George B. Graen and published by IAP. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we elaborate on the dynamic process of leadership sharing in creative project networks by pointing out that the boundaries and relationships of the networks change over time. As the project requirements evolve, new leaders emerge, make their contribution, and move into support positions. This leadership sharing dynamic is a necessary condition for mature LMX and member-member exchange (MMX). This insight about the sharing of leadership within networks directs us to the process of microbehavior being transformed to meso-options and being converted to macrostrategies. This sequence of micro to macro directs us to a marriage of the formal with the informal organization. At this stage we are post Simon, March, and Weick. This book is about putting authentic people back into the social creations we call productive organizations—warts and all. The design of these organizations is as old as human civilization. It helped construct ancient Greece, Egypt, and China. It was improved in the West by the Romans and in the East by the Chinese. During more recent times it was improved by the British Empire whose command and control models gradually gave way to the knowledge models of today. This book is about how we can discover the alternative processes by which fallible humans use sense making to continuously improve organizations at the macrostrategy level.
Download or read book Social Capital written by Kenneth William Koput and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This will be a tremendous addition to the social capital literature and especially teaching some of the concepts of social capital at the graduate level. Such a text is badly needed and quite remarkable that no one has published it before. Viva Ona Bartkus, University of Notre Dame, US Social network analysis was, until recently, a relatively unknown branch of sociology and anthropology. The development of menu-driven computer software packages has opened up access for a wide range of audiences, including business and human resource managers. Yet, the tools themselves are of little value without an understanding of the concepts that can relate the computed measures to relevant applications. Social capital provides a framework for relating the abstract world of graph theory, which underlies network analysis, to the concrete world of human behavior. This book teaches how to understand and manage social capital to facilitate individual and organizational learning and goal attainment. Coverage includes both orchestrating relationships of others and navigating one s own social interactions. Written at an introductory level and accessible to those without background in network analysis or graph theory, this text combines both comprehensive analysis and concrete concepts to emphasize how critical a role social capital s applications play on the foundations of business as we know it today. A reference book for practice and academia, this book will appeal to graduate and undergraduate students of business, business executives and all those concerned with cultivating and refining an understanding of social capital.
Download or read book Team Network Multiplexity Synergy and Performance written by Eean R. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I examine the implications of team social structure for work team functioning and performance. I apply a social network perspective to examine the balance of team structural cohesion and structural repulsion, where structural cohesion is indicated by the density of overlapping instrumental and positive expressive ties, and structural repulsion is indicated by the density of overlapping instrumental and negative expressive ties. I then examine the implications of these social structures for team performance through their associations with synergistic team process gains indicated by teamwork, team motivation indicated by team engagement, and team process losses indicated by team relationship maintenance. I test the predictions of this model with a sample of 109 student teams operating in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs of a large southeastern university. Overall, findings suggest that the structure of social relationships in the team matters for team effectiveness. Structural cohesion was beneficial for team performance because of its association with increased teamwork. It was also associated with increased team engagement and reduced team maintenance, bit it did not exhibit indirect relationships with team performance through these mechanisms. On the other hand, structural repulsion was detrimental for team performance because of its association with reduced teamwork. It was also associated with decreased team engagement and increased team maintenance, but it did not exhibit indirect relationships with team performance through these mechanisms.
Download or read book Transforming Learning with Meaningful Technologies written by Maren Scheffel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2019, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in September 2019. The 41 research papers and 50 demo and poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. The contributions reflect the debate around the role of and challenges for cutting-edge 21st century meaningful technologies and advances such as artificial intelligence and robots, augmented reality and ubiquitous computing technologies and at the same time connecting them to different pedagogical approaches, types of learning settings, and application domains that can benefit from such technologies.
Download or read book New Directions in Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an all-volunteer service accepting applications from nearly 400,000 potential recruits annually from across the U.S. population, the U.S. military must accurately and efficiently assess the individual capability of each recruit for the purposes of selection, job classification, and unit assignment. New Directions for Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups is the summary of a workshop held April 3-4, 2013 to examine the future of military entrance assessments. This workshop was a part of the first phase of a larger study that will investigate cutting-edge research into the measurement of both individual capabilities and group composition in order to identify future research directions that may lead to improved assessment and selection of enlisted personnel for the U.S. Army. The workshop brought together scientists from a variety of relevant areas to focus on cognitive and noncognitive attributes that can be used in the initial testing and assignment of enlisted personnel. This report discusses the evolving goals of candidate testing, emerging constructs and theory, and ethical implications of testing methods.
Download or read book The Net Effects of Social Network Density and Organizational Citizenship Behavior on Group Performance written by Clifford M. Theony and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Networks written by Niyati Aggrawal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to provide a reference for applications of mathematical modelling in social media and related network analysis and offer a theoretically sound background with adequate suggestions for better decision-making. Social Networks: Modelling and Analysis provides the essential knowledge of network analysis applicable to real-world data, with examples from today's most popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc. The book provides basic notation and terminology used in social media and its network science. It covers the analysis of statistics for social network analysis such as degree distribution, centrality, clustering coefficient, diameter, and path length. The ranking of the pages using rank algorithms such as Page Rank and HITS are also discussed. Written as a reference this book is for engineering and management students, research scientists, as well as academicians involved in complex networks, mathematical sciences, and marketing research.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations written by David V. Day and published by Oxford Library of Psychology. This book was released on 2014 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title brings together a collection of comprehensive, state-of-the-science reviews and perspectives on the most pressing historical and contemporary leadership issues - with a particular focus on theory and research - and looks to the future of the field.
Download or read book Social Interaction and Collective Efficacy Dispersion written by Graig Michael Chow and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
