Faultlines, Familiarity, Communication: Predictors and Moderators of Team Success in Escape Rooms.

Autor: O. Szabó, Rebeka, Battiston, Federico, Koltai, Júlia
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Zdroj: Small Group Research; Apr2024, Vol. 55 Issue 2, p330-365, 36p
Abstrakt: We contribute to faultline research by identifying familiarity and cross-subgroup communication as potential moderators in the relationship between diversity faultline and team performance. We employ a novel experimental design utilizing escape rooms as a noninterventional social laboratory, enabling us to capture real-time interactions among 40 teams engaged in problem-solving activities. We find that team familiarity has a negative influence and a suppression effect on success. Faultline affects team success negatively when faultline-induced subgroups do not communicate enough with each other. Our work contributes to a better understanding of complex processes and interdependencies that lead to team success or failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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