Doctoral Dissertation Research: How Collaboration Affects Group Dynamics

博士论文研究：协作如何影响群体动力

• 批准号: 1129584
• 负责人: Michael Lovaglia
• 金额: $ 0.72万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1129584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; How; Collaboration

SES - 1129584Michael Lovaglia (PI)Shane Soboroff (co-PI)University of IowaDoctoral Dissertation Research Proposal: How Collaboration Affects Group DynamicsAbstractHow does group size affect group member trust and cohesion? In unstructured task groups, cohesion and performance begin to decline when the group has taken on too many members. Yet group size can also be an advantage, because it adds diverse skill sets to groups working on shared tasks. As group size increases, the problem of coordination often results in bureaucracy, which in turn can create new problems for effective collaboration. Investigating the maximum number of members for effective, unstructured task groups is important for understanding both how teams work together to achieve goals and how bureaucracy becomes attractive as a strategy for solving problems of collaboration. This project examines how the maximum effective size of unstructured task groups is affected by the degree to which individual contributions are central to task completion, a phenomenon known as "task jointness." The study involves a set of laboratory experiments involving face-to-face groups, in which group size and task jointness are systematically varied. The following hypotheses derived from social psychological theory are tested: 1) Members of groups working on joint tasks will report higher trust than members of groups working on additive tasks and members of groups having a purely social interaction. 2) Groups with seven and eight persons working on joint tasks will report higher trust and cohesion than similar groups working on additive tasks, or than groups engaging in purely social interaction. 3) Members of groups working on joint tasks will be less likely to choose to leave their group as group size increases than members of additive task groups or purely social groups. Broader Impacts The results of this study on the determinants of effective team work are of interest to people in business and complex organizations, both in the profit and non-profit and governmental sectors. Results seek to inform organizational design, as well as workflow and related workplace activities. Research will be conducted at a nationally known center for small-group research. The study will generate experimental and qualitative data that can serve as the basis for future research, theory development, and graduate student training in data analysis. The P.I.s will train undergraduate researchers in experimental methods, data collection, and analysis. Results will be disseminated at a multi-disciplinary conference on small-group research and prepared for publication in an appropriate academic journal.

SES -1129584 Michael Lovaglia（PI）Shane Soboroff（CO -PI）爱荷华大学分论文研究建议：合作如何影响群体dynamicsabstracsabstracstracstracstracstracstracstracstracstracstracsptracsptracsptracsptracthericsabstracther群体规模会影响群体成员的信任和凝聚力？ 在非结构化的任务组中，当小组接任太多成员时，凝聚力和绩效开始下降。然而，小组规模也可以是一个优势，因为它为从事共享任务的小组增加了各种技能集。随着小组规模的增加，协调问题通常会导致官僚主义，这反过来又可以为有效的协作带来新的问题。调查有效，非结构化任务组成员数量的最大数量对于了解团队如何共同努力以实现目标以及官僚机构如何成为解决协作问题的策略很重要。 该项目研究了非结构化任务组的最大有效大小如何受到个人贡献对完成任务完成的程度的影响，这是一种称为“任务关节”的现象。 该研究涉及一组涉及面对面组的实验室实验，其中群体规模和任务关节系统地变化。 测试了从社会心理理论中得出的以下假设：1）与从事加法任务的群体以及具有纯粹社会互动的群体的成员相比，从事联合任务的群体的成员报告的信任更高。 2）与从事添加任务的类似小组或从事纯社交互动的群体相比，从事联合任务的七个和八个人的群体将报告更高的信任和凝聚力。 3）与添加任务组或纯粹的社会群体的成员相比，从事联合任务的小组成员选择离开小组的可能性较小。 在利润和非营利和政府部门中，这项研究的结果对有效团队合作的决定因素更广泛地影响了有效团队合作的决定因素。 结果旨在为组织设计以及工作流程和相关工作场所活动提供信息。 研究将在全国知名的小组研究中心进行。 该研究将产生实验和定性数据，这些数据可以作为未来研究，理论发展和研究生培训的基础。 P.I.S将培训本科研究人员的实验方法，数据收集和分析。 结果将在小组研究的多学科会议上传播，并准备在适当的学术期刊上发表。