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O'Bryan, Lisa; Beier, Margaret; Salas, Eduardo – Journal of Intelligence, 2020
Researchers of team behavior have long been interested in the essential components of effective teamwork. Much existing research focuses on examining correlations between team member traits, team processes, and team outcomes, such as collective intelligence or team performance. However, these approaches are insufficient for providing insight into…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Animals, Animal Behavior, Group Behavior
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Waistell, Jeff – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
The argument presented in this paper is that today's workplaces and universities both require and promote individual and collective responsibility for work and that students need to be adequately prepared for this. UK national culture has been characterised as highly individualist. Therefore, internationalisation of home management students in the…
Descriptors: Individualism, Home Management, Foreign Countries, Group Behavior
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Boreham, Nick – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2004
Contemporary work-related education and training policy represents occupational competence as the outcome of individual performance at work. This paper presents a critique of this neo-liberal assumption, arguing that in many cases competence should be regarded as an attribute of groups, teams and communities. It proposes a theory of collective…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Job Skills, Competence, Group Behavior
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Thiagarajan, Sivasailam – Simulation & Gaming, 1997
Cash games are simulation activities which feature real cash prizes and explore interpersonal skills and concepts. EASY MONEY is one such game, featuring an investment activity which focuses on trust among team members in ambiguous decision-making situations. Directions for administering the game and suggestions for applying a standard six-phase…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Decision Making, Group Behavior, Group Unity
Schoel, Jim – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 2002
The evolution of Project Adventure's Full Value Contract from its original No Discount format is described. Although wording varies among groups, all versions ask the group to create safe and respectful behavioral norms under which it will operate, to commit to those norms, and to accept a shared responsibility for their maintenance. (TD)
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Behavior
Paul, Joe – Campus Activities Programming, 1987
Student activities programs are usually dependent on teams of students and advisers. Theory, potential outcomes, basic steps, and resources for team-building are introduced, and improving output potential, basic steps in team-building, and giving and receiving feedback are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Students, Extracurricular Activities
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Maxwell, Jon – Journal of Experiential Education, 1997
Discusses the goals of team building, scope of team-building interventions, and specific contributions of both experiential (corporate adventure training) and nonexperiential (traditional) methods for increasing work-group effectiveness. A model for effectively combining the two approaches involves establishing goals, clarifying team members'…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Cooperation, Corporate Education, Experiential Learning
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Law, Bruce – Educational Horizons, 2005
Critical Friends Groups (CFGs) are vehicles for creating collective intentionality that reaches a shared end: increased opportunity for the disadvantaged to create equality of opportunity. Not that participating in CFGs is the only action educators can take to create moral schools; rather, moral schools reflect the beliefs, ends, and practices…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Values Education, Teacher Collaboration, Equal Education
Maeroff, Gene I. – 1993
Focusing on teacher teams and their use as a lever for change, the author examines the importance of teachers becoming knowledgeable, skilled, and increasingly articulate about their leadership and participation so that they may take their rightful place in the school reform movement. Ten chapters focus on teams sponsored by the Rockefeller…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics