As political polarization in the United States continues to rise, the question of whether polarized individuals can fruitfully cooperate becomes pressing. Although diversity of individual perspectives typically leads to superior team performance on complex tasks, strong political perspectives have been associated with conflict, misinformation and a reluctance to engage with people and perspecti...

We examined how the distribution of information among team members and accountability pressures affected the quality of negotiated settlements reached among teams of friends negotiating against teams of strangers. The main conclusions of the experiment may be summarized by the following findings: (1) Teams of strangers reaped a greater share of the joint profit than did teams of friends when te...

PURPOSE Development and implementation of robust reporting processes to systematically provide quality data to care teams in a timely manner is challenging. National cancer quality measures are useful, but the manual data collection required is resource intensive, and reporting is delayed. We designed a largely automated measurement system with our multidisciplinary cancer care programs (CCPs) ...

This paper presents a conceptual model that collectively depicts three explicitly-cited process parameters for achieving group decision quality. The research proposes that the existence of any one of these three parameters can positively impact group decision quality in software development teams. Firstly, by encouraging a reasoning orientation and employing a method of group consensus by givin...

knowledge management is a process that has been recently generated as an activity which is very important in the dynamic environment, and in the competitive scene. we believe that km is a process which its organizational knowledge is created from the individual knowledge of the members of the organization. the relevant studies have indicated that organizing based on work teams could be consider...

nowadays, teams play a significant role in organizations' success and competitive advantage. that's why managers and researchers are trying to find antecedences and factors affecting teams' effectiveness. this study aims at evaluating the indirect effect of social rewards on team collaborative culture and knowledge sharing. the research is applied in terms of objective, and is co...

A two-stage methodology is presented for enhancing the process of assigning quality problems to quality improvement teams in industrial firms. The method advances the decision support system of the quality improvement process by grouping the related quality problems in two steps:. First, a soft grouping is performed using association rules as a data mining technique, and then, resulted groups a...

The development of information systems is a difficult process that often ends in failing to meet the project’s initial goals. Typical outcomes for information systems development projects include delivering promised products & services on time and within budget. These pressures are now compounded by the use of virtual teams that present a new set of challenges related to the cohesion, organizat...

an alternative for decreasing risk for knowledge workers is effective & optimized work break.major performance criteria in r&d; based organization is successful projects. selection of opproporiate members can be a most effect on the projects achievement. but as the selection of r&d; special members lead to decrease of risk, repeatative participation of this people in the same project lead to kn...