Group Composition, Leadersh Ip Orientation, and Decisional Outcomes

Dyson, James W.; Godwin, Paul H. B.; Hazlewood, Leo

doi:10.1177/104649647600700110

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“…The traditional view of conflict is that it is a serious threat to teams both in terms of the relationship between members and on performance (Dyson, Godwin, & Hazlewood, 1976). Methods have been derived to counter this perceived threat.…”

Section: Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Ethnographic Study of Conflict in Software Engineering Teams

Karn¹

2008

JIITO

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This paper describes an ethnographic study of conflict in software engineering teams. The aim of the study was to uncover whether certain forms of conflict can be either constructive or destructive. Prior research has uncovered three distinct forms of conflict: task, relationship, and process. This trichotomy was used to measure conflict in this study. Additionally, each conflict episode was recorded to identify if certain issues were more likely to result in either constructive or destructive conflict. The initial findings of this research indicate that some forms of conflict are destructive regardless of the context they occur in. It was also found that the levels of skill and experience of team members and the methodology being adhered to can also play a role.

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Section: Conflictmentioning

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An Ethnographic Study of Conflict in Software Engineering Teams

Karn¹

2008

JIITO

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“…A few researchers explored differences between men's and women's performances and/or group decision-making processes using simulations (e.g. Dyson et al, 1976;Glazer et al, 1987;Lanzetta and Roby, 1960;Smith and Stander, 1981). These investigations are inconclusive, but gender mix was not significant in explaining performance in most.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of Gender Composition on Group Performance

Fenwick

Neal

2001

Gender Work & Organization

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The effect of gender composition on group performance was investigated over three years using the MARKSTRAT 2 simulation. Senior undergraduates formed groups and competed within five-firm (group) industries over 10 weeks, as well as submitting group reports on their performances. Performance and report marks were independent of group size and individual performance in other course assessment. Women per group (numbers, percentage, gender ratio) was positively related to simulation performance, with few women-dominated groups ranking lower than first or second within each industry. Very few all-men groups achieved first or second rankings. There were no significant correlations between group gender compositions and marks for the group written report.Women's more interactive, people-oriented and co-operative work styles apparently facilitate the MARKSTRAT 2 group process and, when combined with men's more analytical decision-making tendencies and competitive orientation, appear to explain the superior performances of mixed groups. The emergence and utilization of these tendencies within groups are discussed in terms of Social Contact Theory and Competition Theory. Although generalizations from student-based studies to the workplace is problematic, the results indicate that groups may be more effective when women outnumber or equal men, especially in complex management activities requiring extensive information management and processing, planning and decision-making over protracted periods.

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“…The early work of James W. Dyson is also important here as he was one of the first political scientists to use lab experiments to study political decision making at the micro‐level. Preceding much of the work on groupthink, Dyson and his colleagues generally found that heterogeneous groups performed more effectively than homogeneous groups in laboratory experiments of group composition (Dyson, Godwin, and Hazlewood 1976). 9 As a pioneer in experimental methodology, Dyson eventually established Experimental Studies of Politics , which served as an important outlet for experimental IR in the 1970s and 1980s.…”

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The State of Experimental Research in IR: An Analytical Survey

Hudson

Butler

2010

International Studies Review

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The purpose of this review essay is to examine the use of experimental methods and its contributions to international studies research. Following a general discussion of the experimental approach, including the advantages and disadvantages of experimentation in International Relations (IR), this review moves to a categorized discussion of the ways in which experimental methods have contributed to the field of international studies. By invoking economist Alvin Roth’s three purposes of experiments—searching for facts, speaking to theorists, and influencing policy debates—this classification scheme helps to identify the overarching purposes of a wide variety of experiments in the field. However, this review seeks to move beyond merely presenting a basic review of the copious experimental literature by also providing an analytical assessment of the function that experimentation serves in IR; that is, to identify and elaborate on experimental research that serves an integrative function, as a bridge across the multiple divides in the landscape of IR. To this end, we introduce a second and original classification framework that allows us to profile in detail a number of singularly significant experimental studies. We then conclude the analysis by highlighting a set of “growth areas” for experimental research that can maintain and expand the already significant contributions of experimental methods to our field.

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Group Composition, Leadersh Ip Orientation, and Decisional Outcomes

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

An Ethnographic Study of Conflict in Software Engineering Teams

An Ethnographic Study of Conflict in Software Engineering Teams

Effect of Gender Composition on Group Performance

The State of Experimental Research in IR: An Analytical Survey

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