Project teams are likely to work under a high degree of stress and interpersonal demands that usually diminish performance. The ability of a team to prosper in these adverse conditions has been studied using the construct ...

Over the last few decades, several studies have been conducted to examine the complex relationships between team diversity and individual and organizational outcomes. Although, in theory, team diversity can foster positive ...

In this paper, a hybrid evolutionary algorithm is proposed to solve a collaborative learning team formation problem in higher education contexts. This problem involves a grouping criterion evaluated satisfactorily in a ...

The use of team for teaching programming can be effective in the classroom because it helps students to generate and acquire new knowledge in less time, but these groups to be formed without taking into account some respects, ...

Bringing together and successfully managing a highly interdisciplinary (ID) research team of socioeconomic, biophysical, and engineering scientists is highly challenging, particularly when that team includes 20 scientists ...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to characterize how innovation may happen through cross-functional teams (CFT) in an organization of the public sector. Design/methodology/approach A case study helped to characterize several ...

This research was carried out in Quito, at Comil 10 Abdón Calderón with first years of E.G.B. The research was made with two sections, the one A and the other B, taking the first one as the experimental group and the ...

Due to the growing use of teams in the productive environment, both by national and international companies, and to the constant search for productivity, understanding the current and modern productive environment has ...

This research aimed to apply the sociometric theory and its methodology to create an integrated multicultural work team. The study focused on the application of the sociometry theory, developed by Jacob L. Moreno in 1934, ...