)On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Kicab Castaneda-Mendez wrote Re: Teams and Measures
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>Thus, my statement was that we identify team
>characteristics, measure the degree to which groups have these
>characteristics, measure the performance of the teams a la Rick, and see
>which characteristics are correlated with performance. Those with positive
>correlations indicate we would like teams to have those characteristics,
>those with negative correlations indicate we would like teams not to have
>them (or have their opposite, perhaps).
It would be well to measure the characteristics of the problem. If the
problem is well understood and the process for solving it well agreed, then
one set of team characteristics is preferred. However, if the problem is
vague and multifacted -- more of an issue -- then another set of team
characteristics is likely to produce better results. It seems to me that
E. Kirby Warren, Dale Zand and Vic Vroom, Columbia, U., USA, wrote all this
down several years ago.
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