SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships SPRF-IBSS: Leveraging the Power of Interactional Synchrony to Optimize Output and process for Diverse Groups and Teams

SBE 博士后研究奖学金 SPRF-IBSS：利用交互同步的力量来优化不同群体和团队的输出和流程

• 批准号: 1306225
• 负责人: Dana Carney
• 金额: $ 20.09万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1306225&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBE; Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowships; SPRF

This project's objective is to fill a critical need in the social sciences to learn how to leverage the incredible value of diverse workgroups while mitigating the cost which inevitably accompanies workforce diversity. On one hand, diverse teams (e.g., content diversity as well as racial, gender and economic background diversity) are superior for innovation, creativity, and rational decision-making. By bringing to the table an array of backgrounds, experience, knowledge, and skills, diverse teams overall produce sharper performance outcomes. On the other hand, they are inefficient, full of interpersonal and taskbased conflict, and their ability to narrow-in and resolve conflict is severely limited. Thus, organizations sometimes shy away from diversity because of all the trouble it brings. What if there was a way to leverage the incredible and unique and powerful value of diversity while mitigating all of its costs? How do we unlock the potential of a diverse team to be greater than the sum of its parts?Intellectual Merit:This research hypothesizes that a simple and cheap, yet theoretically deep and fairly well-understood behavioral manipulation-interactional synchrony (i.e., all team members speaking and/or moving in-time with one another for a short period)-may have the power to finely-tune a highly diverse team into one which functions with the social benefits of a cohesive homogeneous team. In particular, synchrony is hypothesized to tackle the detriments typical of diverse teams (i.e., increase efficiency, increase liking, and reduce conflict), and combine it with the innovation and rationality already typical of such teams. Using a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the subtle, but powerful effects of interactional synchrony, this work promises to help businesses and organizations better understand which minimal conditions are needed to help increase the effectiveness and lower conflict on diverse groups and teams. This project's research plan takes an interdisciplinary leap to hypothesize in 4 laboratory studies that synchronous movements in diverse teams work to align the collection of diverse cognitions, thereby positioning such teams to unlock the goodness their diverging perspectives have to offer. In addition, two field studies examine synchrony in campus student organizations and neighboring public school classrooms to complement the laboratory studies, advance theory, and test generalizability.Broader Impacts: The really broad impact of the research and training plan centers on how interactional synchrony is a transformative way of leveraging team diversity. Results of this research offer real and practical insight for not only business organizations and human resource managers, but also other significant decision-making groups, including government administrations, executive committees, education planners, and health administration teams.

该项目的目标是满足社会科学的关键需求，以学习如何利用各种工作组的令人难以置信的价值，同时减轻不可避免地伴随劳动力多样性的成本。一方面，各种团队（例如，内容多样性以及种族，性别和经济背景多样性）在创新，创造力和理性决策方面都优越。通过将一系列背景，经验，知识和技能带到桌子上，各种团队总体上会产生更清晰的绩效成果。另一方面，它们效率低下，充满了人际关系和基于任务的冲突，他们的缩小和解决冲突的能力受到严重限制。因此，由于其带来的所有麻烦，组织有时会回避多样性。如果有一种方法可以利用令人难以置信，独特和强大的多样性价值，同时减轻所有成本，该怎么办？我们如何解锁多元化团队的潜力大于其各个部分的总和？智力优点：这项研究假设一个简单而便宜的，但在理论上又深刻地理解的行为操纵性相互互动的同步（即，所有团队成员都在短暂的努力中，都可以同时进行一定的能力），这是一个如此多的效果 - 同质团队。特别是，假设同步可以解决不同团队的典型损害（即提高效率，提高喜好和减少冲突），并将其与此类团队的创新和理性相结合。这项工作使用多学科的方法来研究互动同步的微妙但有力的影响，有望帮助企业和组织更好地了解需要哪些最低条件，以帮助提高有效性并降低对不同群体和团队的冲突。该项目的研究计划采取了跨学科的飞跃，假设在4个实验室研究中进行了跨学科的飞跃，该研究同步了各个团队的运动，以使各种认知的收集保持一致，从而定位这样的团队以释放其不同观点所能提供的良善。此外，两项现场研究研究了校园学生组织和邻近公立学校教室中的同步，以补充实验室研究，提前理论和测试可推广性。BRODER的影响：研究和培训计划中心的真正广泛影响是相互作用同步如何是一种利用团队多样性的变革性方式。这项研究的结果为商业组织和人力资源经理，还为其他重要的决策团体提供了真正的和实用的见解，包括政府行政部门，执行委员会，教育计划人员和卫生管理团队。