Team Composition, Diversity, And Performance: An Experimental Approach

Schmucker, Stephan H; Häseler, Sönke

doi:10.15405/epsbs.2017.10.95

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“…In contrast, team formation was determined by the project team according to students' home countries/regions and academic disciplines. This practice of team formation promoted diversity on each team (Schmucker, 2017). Also, the fact that team members did not know each other beforehand and had to get acquainted efficiently and successfully to compete in the eTournament simulated people working on international teams in real-world scenarios (Jackson and Joshi, 2011).…”

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How Online Teams with Diverse Backgrounds Worked to Excel: Findings from an International eTournament

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A tide of changes with technological advances at its center has allowed more efficient and productive synchronous and asynchronous collaborations among dispersed individuals across the globe in recent years. Working effectively in virtual teams of individuals with diverse backgrounds is thus critical for students to succeed in the 21st century. However, relevant training for international collaboration is lacking in the higher education system. The research team examined data from a project aimed to heighten students’ multidisciplinary and multicultural competencies via a team-based, international eTournament organized in 2019 and enhanced and repeated in early 2020 featuring the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Students were teamed up according to a mechanism, to ensure diversity in each virtual team and mimic the real practice in many workplaces. A two-stage “strategize-play” approach was deployed with activities carried out entirely online. Team members first got to know each other, built up their teams and formulated their strategies for the next stage. In the second stage, the virtual teams competed with one other on a gamified learning platform called PaGamO by answering questions related to the SDGs. About 240 students (2019) and 420 students (2020) participated. Various sets of quantitative and qualitative data were collected, including student chat histories, focus group interviews, data analytics from PaGamO recording how the students progressed in the game, as well as the pre- and post-game surveys. This article focuses on the chat histories of students from the top-5 and bottom-5 teams of the 2019 and 2020 eTournaments. The results provide evidence that the high performing teams took a different gaming approach from the low performing teams in such areas as team building and game strategy deployment.

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Polychronicity: Matching Time Styles and Task Types. Some Evidence from a Student Experiment

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Polychronicity, an under-researched dimension of diversity, refers to the degree to which a person likes to engage in several tasks at once. Common sense, scientific theory and initial evidence suggest that individuals will perform better when faced with a job whose demands on multi-tasking match their individual time styles. This paper reports on an experiment among students to test the performance effect of the person-job-fit with respect to polychronicity. Unlike prior research, our experimental conditions focus on the mode of allocating scarce time among multiple tasks. The preliminary results confirm a performance premium in case of a match between time styles and task types.

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Team Composition, Diversity, And Performance: An Experimental Approach

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

How Online Teams with Diverse Backgrounds Worked to Excel: Findings from an International eTournament

How Online Teams with Diverse Backgrounds Worked to Excel: Findings from an International eTournament

Polychronicity: Matching Time Styles and Task Types. Some Evidence from a Student Experiment

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