The book looks at how supervisors, peers, and outsiders influence innovation in scientific groups and what this means for practical teamwork.
Using a study conducted at a NASA research division, it compares high- and low-innovation groups to show how different colleague roles appear across problem‑solving stages. It highlights seven roles performed by the supervisor, group members, and outsiders, and explains how these roles relate to the group’s ability to generate and evaluate ideas.
Ideal for readers interested in organizational behavior, leadership in R&D, and teamwork in scientific settings.
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Innovation of groups of scientists was related to performance of "colleague roles," utilizing a model of organizational decision making proposed by Farris (1971). In more innovative groups, supervisors were named less often by group members as useful for original ideas, but more often for providing critical evaluation. Members of more innovative groups named one another more often as useful for providing technical information and help in thinking about technical problems. Organizational information was available from fewer sources inside or outside the more innovative groups. Supervisors of more innovative groups named more outside sources as useful to them for original ideas. These trends are very consistent with Maier's (1967) emphasis on the leader's "integrative function" in group problem solving.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book introduces a model of decision making in organizations that considers the roles scientists play for one another in the problem-solving process. The model breaks this process down into three stages: suggestion, proposal, and solution. Different colleague roles are highlighted at each stage. Through a series of studies, the author examines how the performance of these roles by supervisors, group members, and outsiders relates to the innovative performance of scientific groups. They find that innovative groups tend to work more as teams, with members finding one another more useful for performing technical roles. Supervisors of innovative groups are seen as behaving in a way consistent with Maierâs theory of âintegrative functionâ, where they receive information, facilitate communication, relay messages, and integrate ideas so that a single unified solution can occur. The author also cautions that a focus on group innovation should not come at the expense of other important aspects of scientific performance, such as steady, productive work or work especially useful to the organization. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781332255405_0
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