Date of Award

Summer 1996

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Psychology

Program/Concentration

Psychology

Committee Director

Terry L. Dickinson

Committee Member

Debra A. Major

Committee Member

Peter J. Mikulka

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.P65 K6265

Abstract

In today's continually expanding and global marketplace, organizations are increasingly relying on teams. The tasks that are performed by these teams are requiring greater interdependency among members as technology becomes more complex. Therefore, there is a need for a valid measure to study the task interdependence among team members. This study developed a measure of task interdependence and provided evidence for the construct validity of the measure using LISREL (Joreskog & Sorbom, 1993). In particular, the task interdependence measure was shown to be distinct from teamwork measures developed in previous research (Rosenstein, 1994). A structural model of relationships among teamwork and task interdependence measures was also assessed. Most of the proposed structural coefficients were found to be statistically significant, and goodness-of-fit indices indicated that the model fit the data well. Suggestions concerning future research and practical implications are also discussed.

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DOI

10.25777/bavj-zr37

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