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...

The use of the virtual team is increasing among organizations seeking the efficiencies associated with overcoming barriers of time, place and distance. However, conflict is emerging as a significant barrier to team performance with studies suggesting that conflict may be unmanageable in distributed groups. This study explores the nature and influence of conflict using the responses of actual vi...

Student and team performance in in sixteen sections of an introductory microeconomic theory course taught using team-based learning are analyzed to determine what measurable characteristics of teams influence outcomes. Team success on in-class quizzes and activities and team cohesiveness are modeled as a function of diversity of class level, gender, and geographic origin, previous academic perf...

Organizations have become increasingly dependent on teams to carry out their R&D tasks. Effective teams rely on knowledge sharing and group cohesiveness to achieve better performance. In particular, the transactive memory system (TMS) and trust are two important factors that impact knowledge sharing in R&D teams. To date, there has been relatively little empirical investigation of the effects o...

Purpose – To determine the effects of project management skills, entrepreneurial proclivity, and existing knowledge on team reflexivity and performance of cross-functional new product development (NPD) team. The moderating roles of team cohesiveness and knowledge practice are also explored. Design/methodology/approach – This study used online questionnaire surveys by inviting 500 R&D team membe...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of disagreement and cohesiveness on knowledge sharing in teams, and on the performance of individual team members. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: Data were obtained from a survey among 1,354 employees working in 126 teams in 17 organizations. FINDINGS: The results show that cohesiveness has a positive effect on the exchange of advice b...

Purpose: This study aims to determine the effectiveness of influence team building training increase cohesiveness in Psychology students at Mulawarman University. Theoretical framework: Cohesiveness is one part that can sense attachment between individuals as members and organization oversees them. Team carried out so student organizations have an interest wanting continue be with achieving com...