Development of a German-Language Questionnaire to Measure Collective Orientation as an Individual Attitude

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Hagemann
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
German Language ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Collective Orientation ◽  
Team Research ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
The Individual

Abstract. The individual attitudes of every single team member are important for team performance. Studies show that each team member’s collective orientation – that is, propensity to work in a collective manner in team settings – enhances the team’s interdependent teamwork. In the German-speaking countries, there was previously no instrument to measure collective orientation. So, I developed and validated a German-language instrument to measure collective orientation. In three studies (N = 1028), I tested the validity of the instrument in terms of its internal structure and relationships with other variables. The results confirm the reliability and validity of the instrument. The instrument also predicts team performance in terms of interdependent teamwork. I discuss differences in established individual variables in team research and the role of collective orientation in teams. In future research, the instrument can be applied to diagnose teamwork deficiencies and evaluate interventions for developing team members’ collective orientation.

A Systematic Review of Communication in Distributed Crews in High-Risk Environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Justine Rockwood ◽  
Dan Nathan-Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Distributed Teams ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Risk Environments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High Risk Environments

Effective communication is critical to team performance but can be impacted by the distribution of team members. Distribution is increasingly found in high-risk environments where task complexity necessitates geographic and/or temporal separation of team members. Understanding the impact of distribution on communication is critical to ensuring effective team performance. We review the research examining communication in distributed teams in high-risk environments to provide an overview of the literature to date. Articles examining communication in distributed teams were analyzed in a systematic review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Themes relevant to the research question were extracted from the studies using thematic analysis. Five themes were identified: updating shared mental models, effects of transmission lags, content of communication, communication protocols, and technological advances. The five themes identify directions for future research.

scholarly journals The development and validation of the Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilan Alon ◽  
Michele Boulanger ◽  
Judith Meyers ◽  
Vasyl Taras
Keyword(s):  
Intelligence Quotient ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Business Context ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Development And Validation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new instrument for measuring cultural intelligence in the business context (BCIQ). Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the process of the conceptualization of the model and the development of the instrument, the sample, as well as the validation of the instrument. Directions on the use of the instrument and future research are discussed. Findings – The instrument shows good psychometric properties and good predictive power and outperforms other publicly available CQ measures on a number of dimensions. Originality/value – The unique features and advantages of the present instrument are as follows: first, a refined factor structure compared to existing CQ instruments; second, use of objective cultural knowledge measures; third, applicability in the business and workplace contexts, thus rendering the instrument suitable for assessing cultural intelligence among expatriates, employees, and global virtual team members; and fourth, improved reliability and validity as compared to other Cultural Intelligence Quotient measures.

scholarly journals SEMANTIC FEATURES OF TRANSLATION OF GERMAN FRAZEOLOGISMSIN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY OF RUDOLF VON GOTTSHALL “MAZEPA” IN Y. FEDKOVICH’S INTERPRETATION

2019 ◽  
pp. 166-174
Author(s):  
Yu. O. Chura
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
German Language ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Language Version ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Historical Authenticity ◽  
The Individual

The article deals with the most famous of German-speaking Mazepa-works of the nineteenth century – the historical tragedy of R. Gottschal’s "Mazepa" and its Ukrainian translation by Yu. Fedkovich. An overview of the critical reception of the German-speaking Mazepa-works proves that the work has received the greatest resonance in Ukrainian literary criticism. In addition, the historical tragedy is the only German-language work on Hetman translated into Ukrainian by Yurij Fedkovich. Among the most important factors of Y. Fedkovych's appeal to work on the historical tragedy is the Ukrainian theme from the past of our people. The analysis of the Ukrainian language version is based on the following criteria for the adequacy of the translation: the translation of realities, in particular, military terminology and ranks of the Cossack army; idioms; reproduction of author syntax and style; observance of the equilibrium of the original work. The article is based on the identification of priorities in the use of expressive means. As a result of comparison of realities, it was discovered that most of the time Y. Fedkovych made a contextual translation or found a situational collocation that was understandable to the people. Military ranks and attributes of the Cossack army were translated with the help of hyperonymic renaming, which testifies to the priority of the principle of historical authenticity in Y. Fedkovych's approach as a bearer of language. It was made possible to describe the features of the creative manner and the individual author’s style of Y. Fedkovych’s translation, embodied in his interpretation of German tragedy. The role of the historical tragedy of R. von Gottschal in promoting the German-speaking Mazepa-works is decisive. Y. Fedkovich's translation remains the only Ukrainian-language version among a number of numerous German-language works devoted to Ivan Mazepa.

Collective orientation and its implications for coordination and team performance in interdependent work contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Hagemann ◽  
Greta Ontrup ◽  
Annette Kluge
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Collective Orientation ◽  
And Performance

Purpose This paper aims to explore the influence of collective orientation (CO) on coordination and team performance for interdependently working teams while controlling for person-related and team variables. Design/methodology/approach A total of 58 two-person-teams participated in a simulation-based firefighting task. The laboratory study took 2 h for each team. The effects of CO in tasks of increasing complexity were investigated under the consideration of control variables, and the relations between CO, coordination and team performance were assessed using a multivariate latent growth curve modeling approach and by estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models. Findings Team members high on CO performed significantly better than low-scoring members. The effect of CO on team performance was independent from an increasing task complexity, whereas the effect of CO on coordination was not. The effect of CO on team performance was mediated by coordination within the team, and the positive relation between CO and performance persists when including group efficacy into the model. Research limitations/implications As CO is a modifiable person-related variable and important for effective team processes, additional research on factors influencing this attitude during work is assumed to be valuable. Practical implications CO is especially important for highly interdependently working teams in high-risk-organizations such as the fire service or nuclear power plants, where errors lead to severe consequences for human beings or the environment. Originality/value No other studies showed the importance of CO for coordination and team performance while considering teamwork-relevant variables and the interdependence of work.

Being open matters: the antecedents and consequences of cross-understanding in teams

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Meslec ◽  
Daniel Graff
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cognitive Diversity ◽  
Team Cognition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Resampling Procedure ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

Purpose – The aim of the current paper is to explore the role of cross-understanding as a mediator between openness to cognitive experience and reflective communication cognitions on the one hand and team performance on the other hand using the input-mediator-output-input (IMOI) model as a framework (Ilgen et al., 2005). Design/methodology/approach – The sample consisted of 156 participants organized in 37 student teams. Two mediation models were estimated while using a nonparametric resampling procedure of bootstrapping developed by Hayes (2012). Findings – Cross-understanding positively mediates the relation between openness to cognitive diversity and team performance and the relation between reflective communication cognition and team performance. Reflective communication cognition has a direct and negative relation to team performance. Additionally, the percentage of women within groups positively relates to group performance. Research limitations/implications – Future research could explore the validity of this model in other organizational settings and while using different indicators for team performance. Practical implications – Practitioners should encourage an open climate toward knowledge diversity and different perspectives within teams, as this might create the optimal conditions for cross-understanding to emerge. Team members should also be encouraged to learn not only about the knowledge of other team members but also about their beliefs, preferences and things they are sensitive to, as this awareness is beneficial for the overall team performance. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the team cognition literature by bringing empirical support for a relatively less investigated concept: cross-understanding. The paper establishes its relation to team performance and two of its potential antecedents – openness to cognitive diversity and reflective communication cognition.

scholarly journals Scoping review of nursing-related dissemination and implementation research in German-speaking countries: Mapping the field / Scoping Review zum Stand der pflegebezogenen Disseminations- und Implementierungsforschung in deutschsprachigen Ländern: eine Bestandsaufnahme

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Hoben ◽  
Charlotte Berendonk ◽  
Ines Buscher ◽  
Tina Quasdorf ◽  
Christine Riesner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
German Language ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation Research ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Implementing evidence-based innovations into care practice is a complex, slow and haphazard process. Dissemination and implementation (DI) research seeks to understand and optimize that process, to close gaps between research and practice and to improve quality of care. While there is a growing body of international DI research, little is known about the number and types of DI research studies and the DI topics studied in German-speaking nursing settings. This scoping review therefore evaluates the state of nursing-related DI research in German-speaking countries, discusses these results in light of the international state of DI research and provides directions for future research. We searched international databases (Web of Knowledge including Medline, CINAHL, PsycInfo, and GeroLit), German library meta-search engines, six German-language key trade journals, and reference lists of included articles. In total, 186 references representing 140 research projects were included in our review. Quality appraisal used five validated checklists. Methodological quality of the included studies was generally low. A total of 92 studies assessed the effects of DI strategies, 67 studied DI barriers and facilitators, 64 evaluated the impact or characteristics of DI processes, and 5 reported on the development or validation of DI research tools. None of the included studies focussed on methodological questions of DI research or on development and testing of DI theories and models. Future nursing-related DI research in German-speaking countries should particularly focus on these latter topics. Taking into account the international state of DI research will be especially crucial for those research activities.

scholarly journals A literature review of personalization transparency and control: Introducing the Transparency-Awareness-Control Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Segijn ◽  
Joanna Strycharz ◽  
Amy Riegelman ◽  
Cody Hennesy
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Paradigm ◽  
Control Framework ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control

<p>Through various online activities, individuals produce large amounts of data that are collected by companies for the purpose of providing users with personalized communication. In the light of this mass collection of personal data, the transparency and control paradigm for personalized communication has led to increased attention of legislators and academics. However, in the scientific literature no clear definition of personalization transparency and control exists, which could lead to reliability and validity issues, impeding knowledge accumulation in academic research. In a literature review, we analyzed 31 articles and we observed that 1) no clear definitions of personalization transparency or control exist, 2) they are used interchangeably in the literature, 3) collection, processing, and sharing of data are the three objects of transparency and control, and 4) increased transparency does not automatically increase control because first awareness needs to be raised in the individual. Also, the relationship between awareness and control depends on the ability and the desire to control. This study contributes to the field of algorithmic communication by creating a common understanding of the transparency and control paradigm and thus improves validity of the results. Further, it progresses research on the issue by synthesizing existing studies on the topic, presenting the Transparency-Awareness-Control framework, and formulating propositions to guide future research.</p>

scholarly journals What can the Instinctive Drive system™ Offer the Workplace? A Qualitative Exploration

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneke Fitzgerald ◽  
Ann Dadich ◽  
John Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Inherent Value

Despite the potential benefits afforded by teamwork within the workplace, it can be difficult for employers and senior personnel to establish and maintain teams that gel. It is a juggling act involving the delicate interplay of organisational goals and interpersonal dynamics. In the pursuit of enhancing team performance within the workplace, organisational and psychological literature has concentrated on the personal attributes of individual team members, as well as relevant societal factors. However, one area that is receiving increasing attention is the influence of the innate abilities of individual team members – those natural qualities that are constant and invariable. The Instinctive Drive (I.D.) system™ offers a method for gauging individual instinctive drives, and recent quantitative research affirms that the tool is statistically reliable and valid. However, for the purpose of thoroughness, it is important to triangulate these quantitative findings with qualitative research. It is thus the purpose of this paper to qualitatively investigate the inherent value of the I.D. system™ among some of its users. More specifically, ten senior personnel and ten general employees were interviewed to explore the perceived influence of the I.D. system™ on individual performance, group performance and leadership. This consultative process was guided by a semi-structured open-ended interview schedule. Consequent research material was analysed for emerging themes, using an interpretive and a reflexive approach. Collectively, the interviewees recognised great value in the I.D. system™. It was a catalyst for greater communication between co-workers and with clients; it served as a window, providing users with an improved understanding of themselves and of others; it also initiated personal development as well as team development. These views were juxtaposed by a few unfavourable sentiments. Some for instance, warned that the use of this taxonomy might negatively stereotype individuals. Conversely, its focus on innate abilities may provide individuals with an opportunity to abdicate personal responsibility. Despite these potential shortcomings, the qualitative material presented in this paper complements previous quantitative research on the I.D. system™, and thus affirms its inherent value. This has important repercussions for business and behavioural sciences, particularly those efforts to improve team performance within the workplace. It highlights the need to focus future research endeavours on tools that not only expound individual difference, but also facilitate effective dialogue.

scholarly journals Fundamental Requirements for Contemporary Performance Evaluation of Emergency-Response and Safety-Critical Teams

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Veerabhadrappa
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Team Research ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Objective Quantification

This is a review-article which selectively reviews key concepts adopted in team performance evaluation literature. This review intends to promote future innovative methods for objective quantification and analysis of team performance. The review summarizes methods, experimental frameworks, sensors for physiological and behavioral recordings, data processing to derive team level objective measures, in the light of team performance evaluation. Observing the advancements in sensor technologies and computation power, towards advancing team performance evaluation, this review summarizes some of the current multimodal based team research. Finally, the review provides suggestions on aspects that the future research focus to overcome some of existing limitations and drawbacks. <br>

scholarly journals Talk and Let Talk: The Effects of Language Proficiency on Speaking Up and Competence Perceptions in Multinational Teams

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 953-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huisi (Jessica) Li ◽  
Y. Connie Yuan ◽  
Natalya N. Bazarova ◽  
Bradford S. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Speak Up

Collaboration within multinational teams necessitates the adoption of a common language, typically English, which often leads to significant differences in language proficiency across members. We develop and test a multilevel model of the effects of language proficiency within multinational teams. An experimental study of 51 teams (102 American and 102 Chinese participants) revealed that, at the individual level, members with higher levels of language proficiency were more likely to speak up, which led to more positive perceptions of their competence. At the team level, greater dispersion in language proficiency across members was associated with less accurate competence recognition, which, in turn, led to lower overall team performance. Moreover, communication medium moderated these relationships, such that the effects of language proficiency were more potent in face-to-face than in computer-mediated teams. We discuss the implications of these findings for future research and for managing participation, competence, and technology in multinational teams.

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