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Does It Matter if I Hate Teamwork? What Impacts Student Attitudes toward Teamwork

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The ability to work in teams is a skill that is often taught in universities to be applied in the business world as discussed by the authors, and a study of junior and senior college students showed that project grades, perceiv...
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The ability to work in teams is a skill that is often taught in universities to be applied in the business world. This study of junior and senior college students shows that project grades, perceiv...

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Benefits and Problems With Student Teams: Suggestions for Improving Team Projects

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize a detailed review of the literature on teams and teamwork, examining the benefits and problems of using student teams and then suggests processes business faculty can put in place to maximize the benefits of group projects, while minimizing the problems.
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Social Loafing on Group Projects Structural Antecedents and Effect on Student Satisfaction

TL;DR: The authors found that the incidence of social loafing increases with the scope of the project and the size of the student group assigned to the project, and that having multiple peer evaluations during the course of a project reduces social loaf-ing.
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The problem of free-riding in group projects: Looking beyond social loafing as reason for non-contribution:

TL;DR: This article found that free-riding behaviour is not necessarily due to apathy or a deliberate attempt to do as little work as possible, but many underlying reasons can lead a student to not contribute equally to a group even if he or she is willing.
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Assessing Teamwork Skills for Assurance of Learning Using CATME Team Tools

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the assurance of learning requirements to gain or maintain AACSB accreditation under the new standards adopted April 8, 2013, for team skills are among the most important ski skills.
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Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing

TL;DR: The authors found that when asked to perform the physically exerting tasks of clapping and shouting, people exhibit a sizable decrease in individual effort when performing in groups as compared to when they perform alone.
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Cooperative Learning Returns To College What Evidence Is There That It Works

TL;DR: Cooperative Learning Returns To College What Evidence Is There that It Works? Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning: Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 26-35.
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The Ringelmann effect: Studies of group size and group performance

TL;DR: Steiner's classic finding that the addition of co-workers in a rope-pulling task leads to a linear decrement in the individual group member's average performance was reexamined experimentally as discussed by the authors.
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The Effect of Team Building on Performance: An Integration

TL;DR: In this article, meta-analytic integration of research examining the effects of team building on performance is reported, concluding that there is no significant effect of team-building on performance.
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