Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings
Like other social systems, corporations comprise networks of individuals that share information and create interdependencies among their actions. The properties of these networks are crucial to a corporation’s success. Understanding how individuals self-organize into teams and how this relates to pe...
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| author | Dominic E. Saadi Mark Sutcliffe Yaneer Bar-Yam Alfredo J. Morales |
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| description | Like other social systems, corporations comprise networks of individuals that share information and create interdependencies among their actions. The properties of these networks are crucial to a corporation’s success. Understanding how individuals self-organize into teams and how this relates to performance is a challenge for managers and management software developers looking for ways to enhance corporate tasks. In this paper, we analyze functional and social communication networks from industrial production plants and relate their properties to performance. We use internal management software data that reveal aspects of functional and social communications among workers. We found that distinct features of functional and social communication networks emerge. The former are asymmetrical, and the latter are segregated by job title, i.e., executives, managers, supervisors, and operators. We show that performance is negatively correlated with the volume of functional communications but positively correlated with the density of the emerging communication networks. Exposing social dynamics in the workplace matters given the increasing digitization and automation of corporate tasks and managerial processes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-37d1e3e94f354f0dbb450d1ee3b22e412025-02-03T06:06:42ZengWileyComplexity1076-27871099-05262020-01-01202010.1155/2020/83015758301575Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial SettingsDominic E. Saadi0Mark Sutcliffe1Yaneer Bar-Yam2Alfredo J. Morales3New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA, USARedzone Production Systems, Miami, FL, USANew England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA, USANew England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA, USALike other social systems, corporations comprise networks of individuals that share information and create interdependencies among their actions. The properties of these networks are crucial to a corporation’s success. Understanding how individuals self-organize into teams and how this relates to performance is a challenge for managers and management software developers looking for ways to enhance corporate tasks. In this paper, we analyze functional and social communication networks from industrial production plants and relate their properties to performance. We use internal management software data that reveal aspects of functional and social communications among workers. We found that distinct features of functional and social communication networks emerge. The former are asymmetrical, and the latter are segregated by job title, i.e., executives, managers, supervisors, and operators. We show that performance is negatively correlated with the volume of functional communications but positively correlated with the density of the emerging communication networks. Exposing social dynamics in the workplace matters given the increasing digitization and automation of corporate tasks and managerial processes.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8301575 |
| spellingShingle | Dominic E. Saadi Mark Sutcliffe Yaneer Bar-Yam Alfredo J. Morales Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings Complexity |
| title | Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings |
| title_full | Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings |
| title_fullStr | Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings |
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| title_short | Functional and Social Team Dynamics in Industrial Settings |
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| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8301575 |
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