In a complex project environment, project teams face multi-dimensional communication problems that can ultimately lead to project breakdown. Team Performance varies in Face-to-Face (FTF) environment versus groups working remotely in a computermediated communication (CMC) environment. A brief review of the Input_Process_Output model suggested by James E. Driskell, Paul H. Radtke and Eduardo Sala...

Using data describing baseball teams from 1985 to 1998, it is found that Levine’s [Levine, D.I., 1991. Cohesiveness, productivity and wage dispersion. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 15, 237–255] team-cohesiveness hypothesis is supported over Ramaswamy and Rowthorn’s [Ramaswamy, R., Rowthorn, E., 1991. Efficiency wages and dispersion. Economica 58, 501–514] danger-potential hypoth...

The content of engineering design documentation, beyond capturing the details of the design, communicates the shared knowledge integration of the design team. In this research, we present a method to analyze design documentation for levels of shared understanding and team cohesiveness in design teams by applying the computational tools of latent semantic analysis and natural language processing...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify patterns of family functioning in adult families after the death of a parent. METHOD One hundred fifteen families completed measures of family functioning, grief, psychological state, and social adjustment 6 weeks (time 1), 6 months (time 2), and 13 months (time 3) after the death of a parent (a total of 670 individual responses). Cluster analyt...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a psychological skills training program on the cohesion of a men's soccer team during a playing season. Thirty subjects were divided into an experimental group (first team) and a control group (reserve team). All subjects were measured on cohesiveness items before, in the middle, and after a seven-month psychological intervention program. ...

Although equity theory has dominated the conception oi justice in organizational reldions, equality also shapes justice expectations and behaviors. Therefore, there are two basic and, in principle, inevitable pressures toward conflict: (a) one stems from equity violations and results in overt conflict involving attempts to restore justice and (b) the other stems from equality violations and res...