Title

Project characteristics and group communication: An investigation

Authors

Authors

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

Comments

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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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