Work groups are of critical importance to organizational effectiveness. Whether group members can function together cohesively affects the performance of a team. Therefore, the relationship between group cohesion and performance has been the focus of many studies. With advances in information technology, virtual teams have been employed in firms for a variety of tasks. Compared to face-to-face ...

There are several dimensions along which verbalization responds to context, resulting in individual and social differences in conversational style. Style, as I use the term, is not something extra added on, l ike decorat ion. Anything that is said must be said in some way; co-occurrence expectations of that "way" constitute style. The dimensions of style I w i l l discuss are: I. F ix i ty vs. ...

12 Abstract The authors work as online tutors for a BSc (Hons) physiotherapy programme at 13 Coventry University in the United Kingdom. This paper represents a stage in our 14 developing understanding, over a 3 year period, of the impact of group dynamics on online 15 interaction among physiotherapy students engaged in sharing with their peers their first 16 experiences of clinical practice. Th...

This report addresses the challenges arising from a change in Mexico’s official poverty methodology from an income-only basis to a multidimensional basis that includes education, access to health services, access to social security, shelter characteristics, access to basic services, access to food, and level of social cohesion. The concept of poverty underlying this report is drawn from Amartya...

Spix’s disc-winged bat (Thyroptera tricolor) forms cohesive groups despite using an extremely ephemeral roost, partly due to the use of two acoustic signals that help individuals locate roost sites and group members. While the calls that aid in group cohesion are commonly used, some bats rarely or never produce them. Here, we examine whether the differences observed in the contact calling behav...

For an efficient urban planning, society needs to agree on the priority values and objectives, spelling them out in a desired 'scenario'. A new vision of urban plan is needed. Is technology available for whatever scenario ? The answer is positive as can be argued by the two following extreme and caricatural scenarios: • the super-funtionalized and space-specialised city: the sectoralisation of ...

This research considers how different features of informal networks affect knowledge transfer. As a complement to previous research that has emphasized the dyadic tie strength component of informal networks, we focus on how network structure influences the knowledge transfer process. We propose that social cohesion around a relationship affects the willingness and motivation of individuals to i...

In this paper we o¤er a new theory of religion. Our theory relies on the assumption that individuals in society have di¤erent beliefs about the statistical relation between their actions in a strategic social interaction (speci…cally, a Prisoner’s Dilemma) and uncertain events that a¤ect their utility. This heterogeneity of beliefs allows for the endogenous emergence of religious institutions; ...