Title
Project characteristics and group communication: An investigation
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
ISSN
0361-1434
Recommended Citation
"Project characteristics and group communication: An investigation" (2002). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 3433.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/3433
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