In Search of Synergy in Small Group Performance

By Jr. James R. Larson. 2009

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Team Faultline Measures (2013, background): “According to Larson (2009), group sizes of up to 20 members can still be consid- ered a team.”
Flow experience and team performance: The role of team goal commitment and information exchange (2013, unknown): “Work teams are becoming increasingly popular in organizations given their merits, which include a possible increase in performance and creativity, a synergistic effect, and a reduction in production costs and the rate of absenteeism (Delarue et al. 2008; Larson 2010; Richter et al. 2011).”
Transactive Memory Systems: Current Issues and Future Research Directions (2011, background): “In the case of subjective outcomes, the diversity of expertise associated with a TMS might exacerbate the disagreement that is common when tasks outcomes are not clearly understood (Larson 2010), rather than assist with convergence on an optimal solution.”
Collective Intelligence and Group Performance (2015, background): “Considerable work in fields such as social psychology, organizational behavior, and industrial psychology has focused on the various factors that predict group performance (Hackman, 1987; Ilgen, Hollenbeck, Johnson, & Jundt, 2005; Larson, 2010).”