Supervisory Roles, Colleague Roles, and Innovation in Scientific Groups (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Farris, George Franklin

 
9781332255405: Supervisory Roles, Colleague Roles, and Innovation in Scientific Groups (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

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.




  • How the supervisor’s orientation toward group members and outsiders affects problem solving.

  • Which roles are most useful for providing technical information, thinking through problems, and offering critical evaluation.

  • How high-innovation groups differ in teamwork, in who helps whom, and in reliance on outsiders.

  • Practical guidance on fostering collaborative problem solving without overusing external ideas.



Ideal for readers interested in organizational behavior, leadership in R&D, and teamwork in scientific settings.

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Excerpt from Supervisory Roles, Colleague Roles, and Innovation in Scientific Groups

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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