Psychology 3694F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Order Of Newfoundland And Labrador
12 Jan 2016
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The effectiveness of teams in experimental and field settings. They suggest allen and hecht"s romance of teams concept is not theoretically based or conceptually useful. It refers solely to assumptions about people"s generally positive views about team performance. Allen and hecht did not explore the validity of their concept empirically; instead they reviewed some of the literature about groups and teams. Allen and hecht selection of group experimental studies and reviews seem biased in several ways. The view they present that groups produce loss, but never process gain is outdated and recent development in experimental group research, which demonstrates process gain are omitted from their review of literature. In addition, the scope of group tasks explored in their review of literature is very narrow. In summary, allen and hecht draw a partial and outdated picture of the experimental group research, biased toward process loss, limited to ad hoc group settings and focused on a narrow range of group tasks.
