Fast Company Now high performance workgroups are usually protected from the rest of the org. been there. Posted: 2005-02-02T11:54:50Z (categories: collaborationinnovation )
Just had a thought: how much of the performance boost is due to the result of the rule-bending, and how much to the psychological impact on the members of the group? I.e., is it only important that groups members feel they are being treated "specially"? Would the impact be the same if the rules were changed for everybody and never as a special case? (PEC)
Motivation research indicates that how many posessions we have or how much money, prestige, etc. doesn't really matter, but how we sit in relation to our neighbors or peers is very important. Maybe this is true for high-performance teams, too. (PED)
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Just had a thought: how much of the performance boost is due to the result of the rule-bending, and how much to the psychological impact on the members of the group? I.e., is it only important that groups members feel they are being treated "specially"? Would the impact be the same if the rules were changed for everybody and never as a special case? (PEC)
Motivation research indicates that how many posessions we have or how much money, prestige, etc. doesn't really matter, but how we sit in relation to our neighbors or peers is very important. Maybe this is true for high-performance teams, too. (PED)