. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

’ performances or strategically withhold feedback. We find that if team performance is determined by the best performer (the "best …-shot technology"), then both public and private feedback are better than no feedback unless the team is composed of all low performers …, in which case no feedback is best. If, on the other hand, team performance is determined by the worst performer (the …

management’s goals and objectives. However, new product team members bring their own motivational perspectives to strategic … decisions. This research examines how individual and leadership motivations influence a dyadic team’s new product decisions …. Specifically, this article investigates how matching vs. mismatched motivations between team members affect new product number …

-person team. Treatments vary the payment scheme (piece rate or revenue sharing), whether teammates can communicate, and the role …

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … variation in – otherwise random – team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but …

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … variation in - otherwise random - team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but …

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the … impact on team performance as good workers. People who nominate themselves to be in charge perform worse than managers …