When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create...
Purpose – We review how team members’ identities and interests affect team functioning, paying special attention to subgroup dynamics triggered by faultlines and coalitions. This review sets the stage...
View ArticleToward Better Understanding of Interaction Dynamics in Multicultural Teams: A...
Purpose – Existing research in organizational behavior and social psychology focuses on comparisons in behaviors and attitudes across national groups, instead of studies on interactions among...
View ArticleTime Pressure, Performance, and Productivity
Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to explore the question of whether there is an optimal level of time pressure in groups.Design/approach – We argue that distinguishing performance from...
View ArticleEngaging Groups and Organizational Decisions: A Social Dilemma Perspective
Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to explore the implications of viewing group decision-making through the lens of a social dilemma.Design/methodology/approach – The chapter reviews the...
View ArticleTechnology and Teams: The Next Ten Years
Purpose – The technologies teams use in organizations have dramatically changed in the 11 years since the 2000 Volume, Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Technology. This is an update focusing on...
View ArticleChallenges and Opportunities for Group Learning and Group Learning Researchers
Purpose – We explore two characteristics of groups in today's work environments, membership dispersion and geographic dispersion, and the effects that these conditions have on group and organizational...
View ArticleDelusions of Homogeneity? Reinterpreting the Effects of Group Diversity
Purpose – To motivate diversity researchers to reconsider prior findings that use homogeneity as the standard to which diverse teams are compared. To recognize that homogeneity may be just as (if not...
View ArticlePolitical Correctness and Group Composition: A Research Agenda
Purpose – We investigate the antibias norm, “political correctness” (PC), and explore the consequences of the PC norm for group processes and group performance.Methodology/approach – We define the term...
View ArticleManaging Conflict in Groups and Teams: Conflict about Conflict
Purpose – There are a number of ongoing debates in the organizational literature about conflict in groups and teams. We investigate two “conflicts about conflict” (i.e., two meta-conflicts) in the...
View ArticleThe Nature of Collective Reactions to Potential Transgressions
Purpose – To motivate efforts within the ethics, fairness, and justice literatures to address some largely unexamined questions regarding how reactions to potential transgressions might depend on the...
View ArticleThe Far-Reaching Effects of Power: At the Individual, Dyadic, and Group Levels
Purpose – This chapter provides a framework that captures the fundamental impacts of power at the individual, dyadic, small group, and organizational levels. Within each level, we trace the...
View ArticleMicropolitics: A New Model of Status Hierarchies in Teams
Purpose – In this chapter, we review the research on status hierarchies in groups and teams to assess the relative validity of two major models – the dominance and functionalist theories of status...
View ArticleLeadership in Small Groups and Teams: Toward a Theory of Group Leadership
Purpose – Leadership is a very large topic with a long history of scholarship. Despite this, existing theories of leadership have been mostly silent about group-level phenomena and challenges that...
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