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Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings
Joint Authors
Bar-Yam, Yaneer
Saadi, Dominic E.
Sutcliffe, Mark
Morales, Alfredo J.
Source
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-18, 18 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-03-23
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
18
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Like other social systems, corporations comprise networks of individuals that share information and create interdependencies among their actions.
The properties of these networks are crucial to a corporation’s success.
Understanding how individuals self-organize into teams and how this relates to performance is a challenge for managers and management software developers looking for ways to enhance corporate tasks.
In this paper, we analyze functional and social communication networks from industrial production plants and relate their properties to performance.
We use internal management software data that reveal aspects of functional and social communications among workers.
We found that distinct features of functional and social communication networks emerge.
The former are asymmetrical, and the latter are segregated by job title, i.e., executives, managers, supervisors, and operators.
We show that performance is negatively correlated with the volume of functional communications but positively correlated with the density of the emerging communication networks.
Exposing social dynamics in the workplace matters given the increasing digitization and automation of corporate tasks and managerial processes.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Saadi, Dominic E.& Sutcliffe, Mark& Bar-Yam, Yaneer& Morales, Alfredo J.. 2020. Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings. Complexity،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1144193
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Saadi, Dominic E.…[et al.]. Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings. Complexity No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1144193
American Medical Association (AMA)
Saadi, Dominic E.& Sutcliffe, Mark& Bar-Yam, Yaneer& Morales, Alfredo J.. Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings. Complexity. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1144193
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1144193