SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships SPRF-IBSS: Leveraging the Power of Interactional Synchrony to Optimize Output and process for Diverse Groups and Teams

SBE 博士后研究奖学金 SPRF-IBSS：利用交互同步的力量来优化不同群体和团队的输出和流程

• 批准号: 1306225
• 负责人: Dana Carney
• 金额: $ 20.09万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1306225&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBE; Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowships; SPRF

This project's objective is to fill a critical need in the social sciences to learn how to leverage the incredible value of diverse workgroups while mitigating the cost which inevitably accompanies workforce diversity. On one hand, diverse teams (e.g., content diversity as well as racial, gender and economic background diversity) are superior for innovation, creativity, and rational decision-making. By bringing to the table an array of backgrounds, experience, knowledge, and skills, diverse teams overall produce sharper performance outcomes. On the other hand, they are inefficient, full of interpersonal and taskbased conflict, and their ability to narrow-in and resolve conflict is severely limited. Thus, organizations sometimes shy away from diversity because of all the trouble it brings. What if there was a way to leverage the incredible and unique and powerful value of diversity while mitigating all of its costs? How do we unlock the potential of a diverse team to be greater than the sum of its parts?Intellectual Merit:This research hypothesizes that a simple and cheap, yet theoretically deep and fairly well-understood behavioral manipulation-interactional synchrony (i.e., all team members speaking and/or moving in-time with one another for a short period)-may have the power to finely-tune a highly diverse team into one which functions with the social benefits of a cohesive homogeneous team. In particular, synchrony is hypothesized to tackle the detriments typical of diverse teams (i.e., increase efficiency, increase liking, and reduce conflict), and combine it with the innovation and rationality already typical of such teams. Using a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the subtle, but powerful effects of interactional synchrony, this work promises to help businesses and organizations better understand which minimal conditions are needed to help increase the effectiveness and lower conflict on diverse groups and teams. This project's research plan takes an interdisciplinary leap to hypothesize in 4 laboratory studies that synchronous movements in diverse teams work to align the collection of diverse cognitions, thereby positioning such teams to unlock the goodness their diverging perspectives have to offer. In addition, two field studies examine synchrony in campus student organizations and neighboring public school classrooms to complement the laboratory studies, advance theory, and test generalizability.Broader Impacts: The really broad impact of the research and training plan centers on how interactional synchrony is a transformative way of leveraging team diversity. Results of this research offer real and practical insight for not only business organizations and human resource managers, but also other significant decision-making groups, including government administrations, executive committees, education planners, and health administration teams.

该项目的目标是满足社会科学的迫切需求，学习如何利用不同工作组的难以置信的价值，同时减轻不可避免地伴随着劳动力多样性的成本。一方面，不同的团队（例如，内容多样性以及种族、性别和经济背景的多样性）对于创新、创造力和理性决策来说是上级的。通过将一系列背景、经验、知识和技能摆到桌面上，多元化的团队总体上会产生更清晰的绩效结果。另一方面，他们效率低下，充满了人际冲突和基于任务的冲突，他们缩小和解决冲突的能力受到严重限制。因此，组织有时回避多样性，因为它带来的所有麻烦。如果有一种方法可以利用多样性令人难以置信的、独特的和强大的价值，同时降低其所有成本，那会怎么样？我们如何释放一个多元化团队的潜力，使其大于各部分的总和？智力优点：这项研究假设，一个简单而廉价，但理论上深入和相当好理解的行为操纵-间歇同步（即，所有团队成员在短时间内彼此同步地说话和/或移动）-可以具有将高度多样化的团队微调为具有内聚的同质团队的社会效益的团队的能力。特别是，同步被假设为解决不同团队的典型问题（即，提高效率，增加好感，减少冲突），并将其与创新和理性结合起来，这已经是此类团队的典型特征。使用多学科的方法来调查微妙的，但强大的影响interactionsynchrony，这项工作有望帮助企业和组织更好地了解需要哪些最低条件，以帮助提高效率和降低冲突的不同群体和团队。该项目的研究计划采取跨学科的飞跃，在4个实验室研究中假设不同团队的同步运动可以使不同认知的集合保持一致，从而使这些团队能够释放他们不同观点所提供的好处。此外，两个实地研究探讨同步在校园学生组织和邻近的公立学校教室，以补充实验室研究，推进理论，并测试generalizability.Broader的影响：真正广泛的影响的研究和培训计划中心如何interactionsynchrony是一种变革性的方式，利用团队的多样性。本研究的结果不仅为商业组织和人力资源管理者，而且也为其他重要的决策群体，包括政府管理部门、执行委员会、教育规划者和卫生管理团队提供了真实的和实用的见解。