The issue of one's identity has loomed large recently and has unfortunately been used more
and more as a wedge to separate subgroups. It is important to understand the ramifications …

Working with others on group or collective tasks often leads individuals to slack off and
reduce their own efforts, but such motivation losses are not inevitable, and motivation gains …

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team
members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign …

Many see the absence of conflict between groups as indicative of effective intergroup
relations. Others consider its management a suitable effectiveness criterion. In this article we …

Background Comprehensive studies evaluating the efficacy of team-based competition
(“Gamification”) in surgery have not been performed. Board pass rates and resident …

The social psychological study of competition, which historically has been intermittent and
until recently was largely dated (eg, Deutsch, 1949; Triplett, 1898), is experiencing …

Organizational researchers, especially in the past 15 years, have been investigating the
generalizability of experimental findings on social loafing to organizational field settings. In …

This chapter analyzes the role of teams in organizations and their potential for increasing
productivity and profitability. In economics, the decision-maker is usually modeled as an …

Owing to a high standardization of performance, sports contexts provide unique conditions
to examine effort losses and gains in teams when compared to individual performance …

We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and
performance of teams, showing how self-selection and random assignment affect team …