Network Structure and Performance

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Each group reviewed identical situations—except for the names of the arguing characters Adam and Steven two men Adam and Sarah a man and a woman or Sarah and Anna two women . All else being equal the participants offered the most negative assessments for the conflicts involving Sarah and Anna—both in terms of the likelihood that they could repair their relationship and the likelihood that their argument would hurt workplace morale and productivity.

Sheppard noted the preponderance of negative female relationship stereotypes in the public lexicon. Indeed when two men argue nobody refers to the discussion as a catfight. Some of these stereotypes could be dangerous and could create self fulfilling prophecies she said. Facts and Figuring An Experimental Investigation of in Information and Solution Chinese Overseas America Number Data Spaces by Jesse Shore Ethan Bernstein and David Lazer How can managers create organizations that bring people together to successfully solve problems One increasingly popular managerial tactic to improve problem solving performance is to increase the connectedness or what academics call clustering of the organization. Using everything from transparent open offices to open social collaboration platforms connecting everyone and everything the theory goes will produce better solutions.





True or false In the lab the authors randomly assigned individuals to sixteen person organizations—some more clustered than others—and asked each organization to solve a complex problem divine the who what where and when of an impending terrorist attack akin to the famous Clue® whodunit game . They did so using a platform not unlike real intelligence problem solving environments Through their computers individuals could search for information share information with each other and share theories about the solutions while the platform tracked all behavior. The results Connectedness had different effects on the facts and figuring stages of problem solving.