Enhancing Team Effectiveness in Biodesign: The Role of a Dual Feedback System in Enhancing Team Effectiveness in Academic Teams

Biodesign plays a critical role in developing innovative solutions, such as carbon capturing with living materials that incorporate photosynthetic organisms. Team effectiveness is a crucial aspect of successful collaboration and has been extensively studied in various fields. However, research on team effectiveness in the emerging field of...

Team Leaders’ & Team Members’ Interviews about Reverse Mentoring for Team Effectiveness in Construction Projects

The present study attempts to explore the concept of reverse mentoring at a project level within construction, perceiving it as that process who supports learning from someone subordinate to someone superior on the basis of a power difference relationship between a team member and a team leader. So far, the existing literature has emphasized on...

Organizational Impact on Project Team Efficiency: How simulations can help create a productive and efficient environment

This research tries to quantitatively identify the relation between team composition, organization structure, communication and team efficiency. The study takes a model-based approach to reach its objective. This research stresses the utility of agent-based modeling as a tool to first replicate the environment of an on-going project in India and...

Sharing human mental model with an AI agent to achieve team effectiveness

The collaboration between AI agents (Artificial Intelligence) and human is an essential part of achieving complex goals more efficiently. Many aspects are influential in achieving effective teamwork. One of them is trust. In addition, sharing the mental model would improve the understanding of the other’s behavior and the prediction of their...

No-Blame Culture and the Effectiveness of Project-Based Design Teams in the Construction Industry: The Mediating Role of Teamwork

This study investigates how a no-blame culture affects the effectiveness of project-based design teams across different project delivery methods in the construction industry. Ninety-two team members of 34 project-based design teams assessed the no-blame culture, level of teamwork, and team effectiveness in teams that were procured through...

Key factors in team collaboration: A qualitative study to determine the team effectiveness of an inter-organisational, international project based integrated design team

Aim: The aim of this thesis is to investigate team effectiveness in the field of construction. With this study, influential factors on team collaboration between different companies and within teams will be defined. By defining these factors, project managers of comparable project-based integrated design teams can improve the team collaboration...

The influence of different contract types on the effectiveness of owner-contractor relationships in construction projects

The nature of working relationship between owner and contractor in engineering and construction projects is considered to have a major effect on the project performance. This research focuses on factors that may influence owner-contractor relationship effectiveness. Literature suggests that different types of contract, being one of these factors...