scholarly journals COMPARITIVE STUDY OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ENGINEERING STUDENT TEAMS AND TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radhika R. Kartha ◽  
Dr Michael W. Fowler ◽  
Dr Roydon A. Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Effective Teams ◽  
Team Culture ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Capstone Projects ◽  
Insight Into

 Abstract – Design-and-build competitions are integral to effective higher engineering education. Yet, there is not much research investigating if the organizational structures of engineering student teams and team effectiveness follow any trends. This paper delves into the possibility of this correlation by measuring parameters that contribute to effective teams. This research provides data that is used to judge best practices for engineering student teams. The findings from this paper can then be used as a basis for action when the students find a need for organization development in the future. Additionally, this analysis provides insight into teamwork in engineering. This could benefit 4th year design (a.k.a capstone) projects as well as innovative companies with similar settings. The core contributors to a team's effectiveness are leadership, direction, planning, knowledge transfer, and meetings for engineering student teams. Although parameters like communication and team culture are important, student teams generally have no problems in these areas. By comparing three organizational structures, it is concluded that in general engineering student teams are best when they follow a holocratic or flatter organizational structure as opposed to a strictly flat organizational structure.  

scholarly journals Strategies to Promote Effective Student Research Teams in Undergraduate Biology Labs

2020 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Kendra Spence Cheruvelil ◽  
Angela De Palma-Dow ◽  
Karl A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Effective Teams ◽  
Team Culture ◽  
Team Assessment ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Communication Conflict ◽  
Team Functioning

Biology labs often make use of student teams. However, some students resist working in teams, often based on poor experiences. Although instructors sometimes struggle with student teams, effective teams in biology labs are achievable. We increased student learning and satisfaction when working in research teams by (1) including in the syllabus a teamwork learning objective “to practice effective teamwork and team management, including modeling behaviors of inclusion and ethics, and using leadership skills to foster problem solving, team communication, conflict management, consensus building, and idea generation”; and (2) designing and implementing exercises that teach students the value of working in a team and how to be part of an effective student team (e.g., developing shared expectations, creating norms of behavior and team culture, and building awareness of the importance of team conflict and likely student responses to such conflict). We also used individual and team reflections on team functioning, following formal online team assessment. This article presents details about our curricular innovations as well as pretest and posttest data demonstrating student attitudes and beliefs regarding teamwork. We experienced improved student satisfaction and success in introductory biology lab courses, as well as reduced instructor guesswork and stress regarding student teams.

scholarly journals Teams That Work: Preparing Student Teams For The Workplace

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-234
Author(s):  
Diane D. Galbraith ◽  
Fred L. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Effective Teams ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
High Level ◽  
Workplace Events

Organizations today often require collaboration in the form of work teams. Many tasks completed within organizations, whether in the workplace or in academia, however, can be beyond the capabilities of individuals alone. Productive teamwork and cooperative activities in business are expected and can begin very early in a person's career. The pedagogy for teamwork instruction in the classroom may not simulate real workplace events or parallel organizational behavior in order to attain a successful outcome. In universities, teamwork often breeds frustration and dysfunction, since the teams often do not perform at a high level or reach their full potential. This paper will provide best practices for creating productive teams in the classroom in preparation for the workforce. This insight will include ideas that will bond team members through collective values and goals, resulting in effective teams and a productive environment.

scholarly journals A Team Health Self-Assessment Tool and Workshop for Engineering Student Teams

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ada Hurst ◽  
Maria Barichello ◽  
Erin Jobidonc ◽  
Rania Al-Hammoud
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Team Processes ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Students First

The ability to work in teams is an important learning outcome for graduating engineering students. There are, however, limited intentional and structured teaching opportunities through which engineering faculty can instruct students on effective team behaviours.In this paper, we describe a workshop in which student teams self-assess and create a plan to improve their team processes. Students first complete individual surveys, reflecting on their perceptions of the effectiveness of their teams. Individual responses are then aggregated at the team level, with each team receiving summary team scores. A structured in-class activity provides teams with an opportunity to reflect on effective and ineffective team processes, share strategies and best practices with other teams, and develop plans for improvement.Multiple deliveries of the module in various engineering programs, including in a capstone design course, have shown that the module is an effective tool for teams to self-assess and self-correct.

FACULTY AND STUDENT VIEWS ON ENGINEERING STUDENT TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia F. Mead ◽  
D. Moore ◽  
M. Natishan ◽  
L. Schmidt ◽  
Shirley Vining Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Student Views ◽  
Student Team

scholarly journals Challenges for Change Agents. Best Practices at the University Library of Freie Universität Berlin

ABI-Technik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-364
Author(s):  
Martin Lee ◽  
Christina Riesenweber
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Large Change ◽  
University Library ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe authors of this article have been managing a large change project at the university library of Freie Universität Berlin since January 2019. At the time of writing this in the summer of 2020, the project is about halfway completed. With this text, we would like to give some insight into our work and the challenges we faced, thereby starting conversations with similar undertakings in the future.

Technology in Context: Mediating Factors in the Utilization of Planning Technologies

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 895-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Goelman
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Gis Technology ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Mediating Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

My research explores the question: how can theorists better understand the ways in which planning technologies are used by municipal planners? In the case-study municipality, a recently introduced web-GIS technology had little demonstrable success in attaining two of its stated goals: enabling increased public access to municipal geographic information and encouraging planners to produce their own maps. My research links these outcomes not only to the technologies themselves, but to organizational structure and human agency. Planners and planning theorists can gain additional insight into the impact of planning technologies through closer attention to the process through which planners come to use information technologies and the way this process both alters and is constrained by existing organizational constraints, including previously adopted technologies.

scholarly journals The Synthesis Map Is a Multidimensional Educational Tool That Provides Insight into Students’ Mental Models and Promotes Students’ Synthetic Knowledge Generation

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. ar14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan A. Ortega ◽  
Cynthia J. Brame
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Student Understanding ◽  
Knowledge Structures ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Presentation Software ◽  
Insight Into

Concept mapping was developed as a method of displaying and organizing hierarchical knowledge structures. Using the new, multidimensional presentation software Prezi, we have developed a new teaching technique designed to engage higher-level skills in the cognitive domain. This tool, synthesis mapping, is a natural evolution of concept mapping, which utilizes embedding to layer information within concepts. Prezi’s zooming user interface lets the author of the presentation use both depth as well as distance to show connections between data, ideas, and concepts. Students in the class Biology of Cancer created synthesis maps to illustrate their knowledge of tumorigenesis. Students used multiple organizational schemes to build their maps. We present an analysis of student work, placing special emphasis on organization within student maps and how the organization of knowledge structures in student maps can reveal strengths and weaknesses in student understanding or instruction. We also provide a discussion of best practices for instructors who would like to implement synthesis mapping in their classrooms.

METHODOLOGY FOR CHOOSING THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 2003-2012
Author(s):  
O.V. Karpets ◽  
◽  
A.V. Sinitsyn ◽  
A.V. Firsova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Internal And External Factors

This article discusses the problem of choosing the correct and effective organizational structure of enterprise management for its correct functioning. The existing types of organizational structures of enterprise management, which are used in practice today, are analyzed, and their positive, negative sides and the type of enterprises for which they can be used are revealed. Along with this, this article discusses and describes methods for choosing an organizational structure for an enterprise. Also, during the study, internal and external factors were identified that affect the choice of an organizational structure. Based on the analysis, a methodology for choosing the most effective type of organizational structure for enterprises was drawn up. The question of choosing an organizational structure is acute for every manager at the very beginning of the operation of an enterprise, because the quality of performance of functions, both of individual divisions and of the entire enterprise as a whole, directly depends on this. Among many types of organizational structures in this study, the types of organizational structures that are most adaptable to changes in external and internal factors are identified. This study provides methods and tools for selecting the appropriate organizational structure for any enterprise. At the moment, some methods, be it goal structuring or computer modeling, are not widely used, which in turn makes it difficult to choose an effective organizational structure for enterprise management. The choice of an effective organizational structure is an extremely urgent problem today for every entrepreneur, who is interested in the stable economic activity of his or her enterprise.

Process and trends in strategy and form of organizational structures (research of Istrian Partnership Companies of Hospitality)

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-362
Author(s):  
Marli Gonan Božac ◽  
Marčelo Dujanić ◽  
Tihomir Vranešević
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Top Management Team ◽  
Executive Leadership ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Organizational Redesign

The success of partnership companies of hospitality depends on occasional and constant improvements. The two most important stimuluses of improvement are the change of organizational structures (organizational redesign), and the executive leadership. The executive leadership and thereby the top management team has the key role. The redesign of organizational structures has to be a dynamic process which will enable the compatibility with its surrounding. The analysis of the organizational structure and strategy is conducted on the sample of Istrian partnership companies of hospitality.

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