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Adding Relational Harmony To Teams: A Subgroups Perspective, Yonghong Liu
Adding Relational Harmony To Teams: A Subgroups Perspective, Yonghong Liu
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The increasing diversity of the workforce and a greater emphasis on teamwork in today’s organizations necessitate a better understanding of how to ensure unity in heterogeneous work teams. Relational harmony (defined as the coexistence of two or more entities in a state of mutual acceptance and benevolence) is, therefore, a critical end state that diverse teams should seek to achieve. This dissertation aims to develop the construct of relational harmony in organizational research in general and to apply this concept to team research in particular. Research has suggested that team members may be divided into two or more subgroups based …
Exploring The Cohesion-Performance Relationship In Inter-Professional Healthcare Teams, Jill Steiner Sanko
Exploring The Cohesion-Performance Relationship In Inter-Professional Healthcare Teams, Jill Steiner Sanko
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Teamwork and communication failures contribute substantially to healthcare associated errors which are cited to cost over $17 billion dollars a year in the U.S alone. Teams are being used more often to delivery care because they are thought to improve the effectiveness, efficiency of care, as well as decrease costs. Teamwork and communication are critical to patient safety however, the benefits of a team-based approach to deliver healthcare has not been fully realized. Improving the understanding of the factors that affect team successes and failures is needed to advance team functioning and decrease teamwork and communication associated errors. The influence …
Exploring The Constitutive And Social Processes Of Ethics In Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Teams, Megan Kenny Feister
Exploring The Constitutive And Social Processes Of Ethics In Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Teams, Megan Kenny Feister
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This study seeks to examine the communicative constitution of ethics in team-based design projects in an engineering education context. Engineering and design work involve complex social processes and ethical decision-making activities and collaboration (Bucciarelli, 2010). The understanding and development of ethics in future engineers is a primary concern for engineering educators, students, and the governing bodies that oversee this field (ABET, 2013; NAE, 2012). Specifically, given the highly fluid and subjective nature of ethics and the complications of the team-based context, challenges arise about how to move beyond codes and standards that are intended to guide ethical conduct (ASEE, 2012; …