Effects of individual planning prior to teamwork on generation of ideas and goals.
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
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| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Per Eisele |
| Title: | Effects of individual planning prior to teamwork on generation of ideas and goals. |
| Journal: | Baltic Journal of Psychology |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 1-2 |
| Pagination: | 46-58 |
| ISSN: | 1407-768X |
| Publisher: | University of Latvia |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Management (Sektionen för management) School of Management S- 371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/mam/ |
| Authors e-mail: | per.eisele@gmail.com |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The purpose of Experiment 1 was to compare the effects of structured vs non-structured interaction and individual planning prior to interaction vs no planning on group performance, i.e. number of ideas generated. Participants (N = 99) were randomly assigned to 3-person groups. Analysis indicated that both strategies increased effectiveness of groups working on a task requiring creativity. Experiment 2 was a field experiment with 57 participants who worked in 3-person groups on an idea and goal-generating task. In Experiment 3 (N = 216), a more complex design was used to test the validity of initial findings in the first two experiments. Analysis showed that individual planning prior to interaction increase number of ideas |
| Subject: | Psychology\General |
