Forming Student Online Teams For Maximum Performance

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dc.contributor.authorOlson, Joel
dc.contributor.authorRinghand, Darlene G.
dc.contributor.authorKalinski, Ray
dc.contributor.authorZiegler, James G.
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-02T23:02:42Z
dc.date.available2020-01-02T23:02:42Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractWhat is the best way to assign graduate business students to online team-based projects? Team assignments are frequently made on the basis of alphabet, time zones or previous performance. This study reviews personality as an indicator of student online team performance. The personality assessment IDE (Insights Discovery Evaluator) was administered to 450 students in the first six-week course of a proprietary online university MBA program. The IDE was utilized for the study because the university had selected the IDE as a part of its business curriculum. In the second week, students were randomly placed on 138 virtual teams and quantitative data collected from an assignment where students self-reported their IDE type. A qualitative method was used to determine subject IDE type in those cases where subjects did not clearly identify their type. Performance was measured using three instructor- graded assignments completed during the course. Student virtual teams were categorized as random, variable and dominant, contingent upon the composition of team personality types. This study found no statistically significant relationship between IDEs personality types or the cognitive trait variables of attitude (extroversion and introversion) or trait function (thinking and feeling) on team performance. Personality trait did not appear to be a variable with the intentional formation of higher performing online student teams. All personality traits performed equally as well. Personality Bias (IDE type homogeneity) was the closest to being statistically significant as a factor in virtual team performance. A model is presented describing the relationship between personality and performance.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationOlson, J., Ringhand, D., Kalinski, R. & Ziegler, J. (2015). Forming student online teams for maximum performance. American Journal of Business Education, 8(2), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.19030/ajbe.v8i2.9136en_US
dc.identifier.issn1942-2504
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12264/102
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherClute Instituteen_US
dc.rightsOriginally published in The American Journal of Business Education at https://clutejournals.com/ under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States (CC BY 3.0 US) License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.subjectVirtual Teamsen_US
dc.subjectOnline Teamsen_US
dc.subjectTeam Performanceen_US
dc.subjectOnline Learningen_US
dc.subjectDistance Educationen_US
dc.subjectVirtual Managementen_US
dc.subjectInsights Discovery Evaluatoren_US
dc.subjectTeam Personality and Performanceen_US
dc.subjectPersonality Biasen_US
dc.subjectTeam Performanceen_US
dc.titleForming Student Online Teams For Maximum Performanceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
local.external.urihttps://doi.org/10.19030/ajbe.v8i2.9136

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