Choosing Work Group Members: Balancing Similarity, Competence, and Familiarity
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Choosing Workgroup Members 1 Running head: CHOOSING WORKGROUP MEMBERS Choosing Workgroup Members: Balancing Similarity, Competence, and Familiarity
This study explores one of the contributors to group composition – the basis on which people choose others with whom they want to work. We use a combined model to explore individual attributes, relational attributes, and previous structural ties as determinants of work partner choice. Four years of data from participants in 33 small project groups were collected, some of which reflects individu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0749-5978
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1999.2875