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Interviewing for cross-functional teams

  • 1.  Interviewing for cross-functional teams

    Posted 12-06-1998 02:54
    Leon Levitt said, "You are not looking for a spouse and trying to identify
    personal compatibilities."

    As I understand the data, success and failure/divorce rates for arranged
    marriages (when the spouses-to-be are children or infants) are about the same
    as for Western-style "interview" (dual self-selection) marriages, within the
    same countries (which controls for cultural to an extent).

    To the extent that such evidence is true, I would have expected an enormous
    order of magnitude difference if interviewing had a significant effect. In my
    opinion, adaptation appears to swamp any interview effect: people adapt to one
    another, to their teams and work groups.

    Does anyone have any case studies to relate that support advantages to
    interviewing for cross-functional teams (where each department SENDS one group
    member). Or are interviews just for hiring?
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    Prof. John L. Naman naman+@pitt.edu