Introduction to the Special Issue on Common Goals, Different Needs: Improving Communication and Collaboration Between Researchers and Practitioners to End Interpersonal Violence

Abstract

Rates of interpersonal violence have largely remained stagnant over the past three decades, despite the magnitude of prevention and response efforts to address this issue. Although interpersonal violence researchers have stressed the importance of partnerships between researchers and campus and community-based practitioners, there is still a disconnect between the work done by researchers and those engaged in direct practice in the field. This special issue brings together researchers and practitioners to explore a variety of challenges and successes in identifying common goals, building relationships, and improving strategies for addressing interpersonal violence using researcher-practitioner models.

The Effect of Collective Decision-Making on Productivity: A Structural Equation Modeling

“…Each decision-maker has personal goals that reflect the values and level of desire of the individual. Because of personal differences, individuals’ goals are different, and the outcome of individual decision-making—as opposed to the collective decision-making outcome in which the group seeks to reach a joint decision—often varies from one decision-maker to another (Bui, 1987; Klein et al, 2022). But, to reach a collective decision, individuals must reach commonalities to be able to achieve common goals inadvertently.…”