The Importance of Leadership in Design Team Problem-Solving

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العنوان: The Importance of Leadership in Design Team Problem-Solving
المؤلفون: Luis A. Vasconcelos, Nathan Crilly, Maria Adriana Neroni, CC Chen
المصدر: Analysing Design Thinking: Studies of Cross-Cultural Co-Creation ISBN: 9781315208169
بيانات النشر: CRC Press, 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
مصطلحات موضوعية: Team composition, Structure (mathematical logic), Teamwork, Knowledge management, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Design team, Task (project management), Content analysis, Team leader, business, Psychology, Composition (language), media_common
الوصف: © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK. Design team problem-solving is challenging to study because the strategies and behaviours exhibited by teams can vary considerably with team composition, design environment and task demands. As a consequence, the tools and methods developed to improve team strategies and behaviours are not always empirically informed. Existing work on team problem-solving tends to adopt one of two perspectives. The first relates to design cognition and focuses on how the team represents and tackles the problem. The second relates to teamwork and focuses on how the composition, structure and dynamics of the team affect the way it works together. In this study, we adopt both these perspectives when analysing the dialogue and behaviours of a professional design team in meetings over the course of a project. Content analysis of team members’ verbal communications (with pre-defined codes) is used to characterise the team’s problemsolving strategy while qualitative observations (without pre-defined codes) are used to characterise team dynamics, integration and effectiveness during different problemsolving episodes. Our findings suggest that leadership can play an important role in design problem-solving. The team leader shapes the team’s problem-solving strategy by coordinating team discussions and helps the team to build up shared representations by facilitating closed-loop communication. These findings suggest that good leadership practices – and the team processes that they facilitate – are important in small task-driven teams and not only in larger team units such as organisations.
ردمك: 978-1-315-20816-9
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::c7782192e40273745c8018d10305e9b6
https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315208169-5
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قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE