Integrated Organizational Assessment Process and Tools: Application in an Engineer-To-Order Company

Team Building in an Online Organizational Behavior Course

“…Changes in a team's style take time to implement and bear fruit (Van Aken et al, 2001), but the more critical issue is whether the group task has been accomplished (Miller, 2003). For courses of short duration (4 months), graduate online learners concentrate their efforts on task and knowledge mastery and less so on social presence (Duncan, 2005).…”

“…Students appeared to hold the belief that such changes would lead to improved team performance. Team assessment is pointless unless members are motivated to resolve problems (Van Aken, Groesbeck, & Coleman, 2001). In our course, students were graded on both awareness and understanding of process and team outputs consisting of projects.…”