People have been shown to exhibit social loafing when working as a team, and these effects are thought to be enhanced when working in distributed contexts. This paper reports on an experiment that examined the effect of activity awareness on feelings of connectedness and willingness to work in virtual teams. The results show that activity awareness indeed had a significant impact on feelings of...

Confidence in distributed or virtual team working is running high. However, some concern is evident that practice is leaping ahead of theories to guide its implementation. There are calls for new and improved theories to specifically embrace distributed team working. This chapter is a response to such calls, offering a complex-systems-based model of organization development. This model was orig...

Introduction: The Army’s social networks often involve cooperation – entities working together to achieve a common goal. What are the metrics for such a network? What is cooperation and what makes cooperative networks effective? Can network structures and processes enhance cooperation and optimize networks? This presentation uses the emerging mathematical framework of subset team games (Arney &...

Hierarchical prosody structure generation is an important but challenging component for speech synthesis systems. In this paper, we investigate the use of enhanced embedding (joint learning of character and word embedding (CWE)) features and different model fusion approaches at both character and word level for Mandarin prosodic boundaries prediction. For CWE module, the internal structures of ...

OBJECTIVE Assessment of the benefits and limitations of a quality improvement programme based on total quality management principles in general practice over a period of one year (October 1993-4). DESIGN Questionnaires to practice team members before any intervention and after one year. Three progress reports completed by facilitators at four month intervals. Semistructured interviews with a ...

The primary purpose of this study was to extend theory and research regarding the emergence of mental models and transactive memory in teams. Utilizing Kozlowski, Gully, Nason, and Smith's (1999) model of team compilation, we examined the effect of role identification behaviors and posited that such behaviors represent the initial building blocks of team cognition during the role compilation ph...

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Teamwork is an integral part of the philosophy of palliative care. Cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams offer benefits to patients, practitioners and specialist areas of care. Leadership of teams can be difficult. With shared responsibilities, more than the sum of the competencies of team members can be offered. In palliative care the final decision-maker is the patient.

Value networks underpinned by global and localised virtual teams are believed to have high potential for SMEs. Yet, the successful migration to value-added alliances is blended in the right combination of organizational, legal, economic, socio-cultural, and technical factors, and requires further research into innovative business models. These models should leverage existing SME competences and...

In this paper, we describe the results of source code personality identification from Team BESUMich. We used a set of simple, robust, scalable, and language-independent features on the PR-SOCO dataset. Using leave-one-coder-out strategy, we obtained minimum RMSE on the test data for extroversion, and competitive results for other personality traits.