Teams in a New Era: Some Considerations and Implications

Benishek, Lauren E.; Lazzara, Elizabeth H.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01006

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“…Moreover, the challenges associated with developing these study environments are difficult to overcome. Thus, the aim of this article is to provide considerations for researchers and organizations alike for using escape rooms for teams research (studies that investigate teams (i.e., two or more individuals working interdependently to achieve a shared goal; Benishek & Lazzara, 2019). In this review article, we will discuss the development of an escape room for teams research, its methodological applications, and challenges associated with their use.…”

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Using Escape Rooms for Conducting Team Research: Understanding Development, Considerations, and Challenges

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Background. Modern organizations are increasingly reliant on teams, and many organizations are subsequently concerned with the development of interventions that can improve the performance of teams. Escape rooms are beginning to receive attention as a potential avenue to facilitate team-based research. Escape rooms are team-based recreational activities that require a team of individuals to work together and think critically in order to solve a series of puzzles or challenges to escape a room. Purpose. This article provides considerations for researchers and organizations alike concerning the development of an escape room for team-based research, its methodological applications, and challenges associated with the use of escape rooms in research. Developmental considerations include issues such as an escape room’s location and size, financial considerations, theme development, other characteristics of the escape room, the development of puzzles and challenges, prototyping efforts, and the development of hints. Conclusion. Research considerations include the use of observational and survey methods in data collection, measurement of team processes and team performance, and how elements of an escape room influence teamwork and problem solving. Various challenges associated with the use of escape rooms in team-based research include considerations for dealing with cheating behavior, providing hints to participants, and resetting the room between experimental trials.

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Using Escape Rooms for Conducting Team Research: Understanding Development, Considerations, and Challenges

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“…One recommendation to funding agencies is to support a number of these institutions with a funding mechanism that combines a small business grant and a research center grant. A secondary recommendation for people who wish to start their own distributed virtual altacademic institution is to reevaluate your standards for group membership, inter-dependencies between collaborators and projects, and how to progress towards specific goals [17]. These standards are undergoing great change, and will lead to new ways of thinking even for the most traditional of organizations.…”

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Building a Distributed Virtual Laboratory Adjacent to Academia

Alicea¹

2020

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A number of contemporary forces have conspired to drive highly-competent academics away from the academy. The vagaries of departmental hiring, institutional conservatism, and growth in the number of researchers versus available positions have displaced talent and innovation. Enter the alt-academic institution: small-scale institutions engaged in academic research in niche areas that are not viable at conventional institutions. I will introduce the reader to a specialized type of alt-academic institution by discussing their economics, organizational structure, and approach to collaboration/mentorship. Additionally, innovations such as infrastructural innovation, open access pipelines with version control, heterarchical organization, and a flexible contribution philosophy have made such institutions possible. The main subjects for this point of view article will be the OpenWorm Foundation (http://openworm.org/) and the Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory (https://orthogonal-research.weebly.com/). Readers are also provided with an account of institutional challenges, from article/book access to encouraging collaborative participation. As recent financial crises and pandemics have made clear, we need robust alternative institutions to overcome challenges to the pure research enterprise. Distributed virtual alt-academic institutions can also serve to increase diversity and overall participation in the research enterprise. This has positive consequences for science literacy and discovery more generally.

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“…In contrast, the Work Group Emotional Intelligence Profile or WEIP-3 (Jordan, Ashkanasy, Härtel & Hooper (2002) specifically measures abilities (expressed as behaviours) that are important for workplace performance; and is based on the well accepted framework proposed by Mayer and Salovey (1997). Given the ubiquity of teams (Benishek & Lazzara, 2019) The WEIP-S has four subscales, each comprising four items: (1) awareness of own emotions, i.e. the ability to discuss and disclose one's emotions, (2) management of own emotions, i.e.…”

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How does Emotional Intelligence Impact Employee Performance? Validation of WEIP-S among Indian Professionals

2021

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Emotional Intelligence has been linked with many desirable performance outcomes, however the strength and nature of this impact has often been debated. Leading researchers advocate the use of specific, relevant and well established instruments in empirical research to study Emotional Intelligence at the workplace. To this end, the current work validates WEIP-S, a popular Emotional Intelligence measure which has been specifically tailored for use in organizational research for use among Indian respondents. Results of study 1 ( n = 253) and study 2 ( n=852 ) suggest that WEIP-S retains its original four factor structure and shows acceptable reliability when tested among working professionals from diverse economic sectors in India. Results of study 3 ( n=324) provide evidence for significant positive impact of Emotional Intelligence at the workplace, by linking WEIP-S scores to supervisor evaluations of performance. Additionally, results clarify the differential impact of the four dimensions of Emotional Intelligence on various aspects of employee performance.

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Teams in a New Era: Some Considerations and Implications

Cited by 37 publications

References 95 publications

Using Escape Rooms for Conducting Team Research: Understanding Development, Considerations, and Challenges

Using Escape Rooms for Conducting Team Research: Understanding Development, Considerations, and Challenges

Building a Distributed Virtual Laboratory Adjacent to Academia

How does Emotional Intelligence Impact Employee Performance? Validation of WEIP-S among Indian Professionals

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