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    Team role adoption and distribution in engineering project meetings (2020)

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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/18555
    
    Publisher's DOI/URI
    https://doi.org/10.3390/bs10020057
    
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    MDPI AG
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    2076-328X
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    English
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    Authors
    Nestsiarovich, Kristina
    Pons, Dirk J.
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    Abstract

    Team communication plays a vital role in engineering management, however, there is a paucity of work that examines how team roles emerge as a response to the communicative processes between participants. This research explored role adoption using qualitative methods comprising observations, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Five student teams doing final year projects at a university in New Zealand were observed during the academic year and then interviewed at the final stage of project completion. A number of team roles in the engineering context were identified for students and their supervisors: Explorer; Initiator; Facilitator; Active and Passive Information Provider; Outsider; Active and Passive Connector; Passive Collector; Arbitrator; Gatekeeper and Representative. Personal factors, such as social sensitivity, were correlated with the choice of team behaviour pattern. In addition, the team roles could be arranged in circular order to create a circumplex, the two axes of which were identified as Personal Agency/Communion and Social engagement/Social disengagement.

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    Nestsiarovich K., Pons D.J. Team Role Adoption and Distribution in Engineering Project Meetings. Behavioral Sciences. 10(2). 57.
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    Keywords
    team communication; engineering project meetings; group interactions; team roles; circumplex
    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    40 - Engineering::4010 - Engineering practice and education::401003 - Engineering practice
    15 - Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services::1503 - Business and Management::150305 - Human Resources Management
    17 - Psychology and Cognitive Sciences::1701 - Psychology::170107 - Industrial and Organisational Psychology
    35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour::350710 - Organisational behaviour
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    © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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