Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2012

Publication Title

62nd Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial Engineers 2012 : Orlando, Florida, USA, 19-23 May 2012

Pages

1758-1765

Conference Name

62nd Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial Engineers 2012, May 19-23, 2012, Orlando, Florida

Abstract

The theory and practice related to team processes such as communication, coordination, conflict, and their impact on team performance and effectiveness has been focused on principles applied to teams in general and to specific subsets of teams/situations. Executive decision-making bodies are a specialized subset of teams charged with managing strategic and enterprise-wide change typically consisting of talented team members who make decisions having a broad impact on the organizations they lead. Executive decision-making bodies have been largely unexplored in the team research literature. This study presents an in-depth review of prior research exploring the role of input factors and conflict on executive teams and identifies the most critical variables that have been found to predict outcomes in executive teams. This paper concludes by presenting the framework to be used on a mixed methods study on a field setting focusing on critical input variables that contribute to executive team effectiveness and the role of conflict as a moderator of that relationship. This mixed-methods study seeks to improve our understanding of the dynamic relationships between team input variables, conflict, and performance in executive teams. Individual interviews, surveys, and observational sessions will be conducted to gather data on over thirty executive teams in a 15,000+ employee civilian-driven, military-led engineering government enterprise varying by geography and functional responsibility. Paper includes motivation for the study, research framework, findings to date, and some early conclusions.

Rights

© 2012 Institute of Industrial Engineers (Now Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers). All rights reserved.

Included with the kind written permission of the copyright holder.

ORCID

0000-0003-4348-7798 (Pazos)

Original Publication Citation

Day, C. L., & Pazos, P. (2012). Effectiveness in executive decision-making bodies: The role of conflict. In G. Lim & J. W. Herrmann (Eds.), 62nd Annual Conference and Expo of the Institute of Industrial Engineers 2012 : Orlando, Florida, USA, 19-23 May 2012 (pp. 1758-1765). Institute of Industrial Engineers.

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