Project characteristics and group communication: An investigation

    Authors

    T. L. Roberts; P. H. Cheney;P. D. Sweeney

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    IEEE Trans. Prof. Commun.

    Keywords

    gatekeeping; group communication; information sharing; project; complexity; project group; INFORMATION-SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; TRANSACTIVE; MEMORY; GROUP-PERFORMANCE; TASK COMPLEXITY; CONFLICT; ORGANIZATIONS; PERSPECTIVE; APPREHENSION; ENVIRONMENT; Communication; Engineering, Multidisciplinary

    Abstract

    This research study examined the effects of technological complexity on project group communication. The same project teams performed three separate projects involving the development of an HTML website, the development of a local-area network (LAN), and the development of blueprints for a wide-area network (WAN). Each of the projects exposed groups to a different level of complexity. The results of the study indicated differences in group Information sharing, group communication focus, and group gatekeeping activities. In each of these cases, the groups had greater communication with the less complex project task, the HTML project. The study did not find significant differences in group communication concerned with member withdrawal or group conflict.

    Journal Title

    Ieee Transactions on Professional Communication

    Volume

    45

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2002

    Document Type

    Review

    Language

    English

    First Page

    84

    Last Page

    98

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000175822300002

    ISSN

    0361-1434

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