As groups become more diverse and geographically dispersed they need to rely on a larger variety of skill sets and experiences among the group members. This wide diversity of skills require group members to have the ability to know who knows what, who has what skills,...
“A dynamic process that is reflected in the tendency for a group to stick together and remain in the pursuits of its instrumental objectives and/or for the satisfaction of member affective needs.” (Hambley et al., 2007, p. 6) Team cohesion is one construct that has...
Pondy’s Five Stages of Conflict Conflict in small groups can best be understood as a dynamic process and is often studied as being composed of a series of conflict episodes (Pondy, 1967). Greer, Jehn, and Mannix (2008) supported this point by stating that...
The construct of team psychological safety was introduced by Edmondson (1999) when she developed the scale for team psychological safety. The most cited definition of psychological safety probably comes from Edmondson’s (1999) article where she briefly defined...
In previous research studies we identified the characteristics of complex adaptive systems (CAS; Turner & Baker, 2018; 2020). These eight characteristics include path dependent, systems have a history, non-linearity, emergence, irreducible, adaptive, operates...
