Improving group performance by training in individual problem solving
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This laboratory study investigated the group performance effects of an intervention to improve individual members' use of task knowledge. Subjects were 169 managers (M age = 40 years; 90 percent men and 10 percent women) and 207 MBA students (M age = 28 years; 82 percent men and 18 percent women) working in 80 groups. The task was the Moon Survival problem. A bivariate, repeated measures analysis-of-variance statistical model was used. The intervention, based on suggestions by Maier (1970) and Janis and Mann (1977), upgraded both group resources ( by 0.6 SD, P < .05) and group performance (by 0.6 SD, p < .05). The increment of group performance over average member scores was similar to that achieved by process and structural interventions reported in earlier studies. Supporting the proposition that group performance is strongly determined by member task ability, these results suggest that individual task training complements, if not supplements, the dominant process-training approach in a laboratory setting. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1987
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Correlates of employee satisfaction with stock ownership: who likes an ESOP most?
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In this study, we examined the correlates of individual employee satisfaction with stock ownership in a sample of 37 employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) companies. The results indicated that ESOP satisfaction is a function of five factors: (a) characteristics of the company ESOP, (b) employee status within the ESOP, (c) employee values, (d) interactions between employee and ESOP characteristics, and (e) employees' general attitude toward the organization as a whole (organizational commitment). Together, these five factors accounted for 58% of the variance in ESOP satisfaction. The results both support and extend previous employee stock ownership research and theory. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1988
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