SMALL GROUP RESEARCH
Scope & Guideline
Advancing Insights into Group Interactions
Introduction
Aims and Scopes
- Team Dynamics and Processes:
Explores how interpersonal relationships, group cohesion, and communication patterns influence team performance and effectiveness. - Virtual and Hybrid Teams:
Investigates the unique challenges and opportunities presented by virtual and hybrid team environments, including technology's role in facilitating collaboration. - Leadership in Teams:
Analyzes various leadership styles and their impact on team dynamics, decision-making, and overall group success. - Diversity and Inclusion in Teams:
Focuses on how diversity in teams (e.g., demographic, cognitive, and functional diversity) affects group processes and outcomes. - Intergroup Relations and Conflict:
Studies the effects of conflict, faultlines, and social identity on group interactions and performance. - Group Learning and Adaptation:
Emphasizes the processes of learning, adaptation, and innovation within teams, particularly in response to changing environments. - Measurement and Methodology:
Develops and validates tools and methodologies for assessing team dynamics and performance in various contexts.
Trending and Emerging
- Psychological Safety and Team Performance:
A growing interest in understanding how psychological safety within teams influences performance and creativity, particularly in high-stakes environments. - Impact of Technology on Teamwork:
An increasing focus on how digital tools and platforms affect team interactions, decision-making, and overall effectiveness in both virtual and hybrid settings. - Resilience and Adaptability in Teams:
Research exploring how teams adapt to crises and changes, including the impact of team resilience on performance outcomes. - Emotional and Affective Processes in Teams:
Heightened attention to the role of emotions, mood, and affective states in shaping team dynamics and decision-making processes. - Diversity in Team Composition:
An emerging emphasis on the implications of diversity—cognitive, demographic, and experiential—on team creativity and problem-solving. - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Team Research:
A trend towards integrating insights from various fields (e.g., psychology, sociology, organizational behavior) to enrich understanding of team dynamics.
Declining or Waning
- Face-to-Face Team Dynamics:
Research focusing solely on traditional, face-to-face interactions has decreased as the emphasis has shifted toward virtual and hybrid settings. - Single-Disciplinary Approaches:
There is a waning focus on studies that do not incorporate interdisciplinary perspectives, as the field increasingly values integrative approaches. - General Team Effectiveness Metrics:
Studies that discuss broad, generic measures of team effectiveness without specific contextual applications are becoming less common. - Longitudinal Studies on Team Development:
The frequency of longitudinal studies tracking team development over time has decreased, with more emphasis on immediate outcomes and short-term assessments.
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