Many companies have implemented the team approach as a way to empower their employees in an effort to enhance productivity, quality and overall profitability. While application of the concept to higher education administration has been limited, colleges and universities could benefit from the team approach if implemented appropriately and conscientiously. The authors discuss some of the issues ...

Despite popular expectation that use of time management techniques will improve team performance, virtual teams still fail to perform well in practice. Past research has produced mixed results for the efficacy of time management on team performance. In this preliminary study, we investigate the effect of time management on virtual team performance. Using the punctuated equilibrium model of grou...

Popular location-based games (LBGs) such as Pokémon GO have been downloaded hundreds of millions times and shown to a positive impact on mild exercise social well-being their players. Several currently popular LBGs introduce gamified implementation territorial conflict, where players are divided into teams that battle for the ownership geographically distributed points interest. We investigate ...

team reflexivity as a conscious reflection on team functioning, is a key factor of team effectiveness. because reflexivity (including some of the behaviors that) is caused of learning from past mistakes and errors (team learning) improve the performance of the team. the present study attempts to demonstrate the key role of the team reflexivity on team performance (especially in a project team w...

Models of team development have indicated that teams typically engage in task delay during the first stages of the team’s life cycle. An important question is to what extent this equally applies to all teams, or whether there is variation across teams in the amount of task delay. The present study introduces the concept of team procrastination as a lens through which we can examine whether team...

today, teams are a key resource for learning and work in organizations and this has increased the importance of designing team-based structures. diversity management teams is something that managers should consider when team building. the effect of team diversity on team outcomes and its moderating variable,hasn’t completely identified yet in iran. therefore, given the importance of, this study...

Collective action will be effective in achieving broader social change goals to the extent that it influences public opinion yet the degree to which collective action "works" in changing opinion is rarely studied. Experiment 1 (n = 158) showed that, consistent with a logic of strategic non-violence, non-violent collective action more effectively conveys a sense of the illegitimacy of the issue ...