Self-directed work teams in information services: an exploratory study

Self-directed Work Teams Challenges for Leading, Managing, and Performing in Self-directed Work Teams

The Effect of Self-Directed Work Teams on Work Ethic

The purpose of this study was to compare work ethic of manufacturing machine operators between a selfdirected work team and a traditional work team based on four work ethic subscales and identify differences in work ethic based on six demographic factors. The major findings from the study indicated there were significant differences in the work ethic between machine operators in self-directed w...

an exploratory study of differential item functioning (dif) in efl reading comprehension

بررسی دلایل عملکرد متفاوت سوالات آزمون درک مطلب به زبان خارجی تاریخچه ی تحقیق درباره ی منابع عملکرد مختلف سوالات (دیف) در آزمون درک مطلب پر است از مجموعه ای از متغیرهای فرضیه ای که چند مورد از مهمترین آنها عبارتند از: جنسیت، آشنایی با موضوع متن، علاقه به موضوع یا محتوای متن، حدس زدن، و عوامل بافت اجتماعی (پی 2004؛ زومبو و گلین 2005). مطالعه حاضر با استناد به فلسفه ی انکارپذیری پوپر عوامل ذکر...

Habits In virtual Teams: An Exploratory Study

Despite the differences between virtual and collocated teams, empirical studies have identified a number of challenges that virtual teams experience. We argue, in this work-in-progress study, that habits constitute a good explanatory factor for understanding behaviour in the virtual team environment. In this study, we analyse ‘offline’ habits in the cases of student-based global virtual teams a...

Relative Validity of Peer and Self-evaluations in Self- Directed Interdependent Work Teams

1 Robert S. Thompson, Colorado School of Mines, Petroleum Engineering Department, Golden, CO 80401 [email protected] Abstract  Peer and self-evaluations were conducted on interdependent multidisciplinary self-directed work teams. Teams worked on two projects during the semester with membership changing between the two projects. Generalizability theory was used to partition the peer ratings in...