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Evidence that formal selection of groups and formal selection of leaders can enhance group performance.
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Evidence that formal selection of groups and formal selection of leaders can enhance group performance Organisational psychologists have been interested in seeing whether random selection of leaders or the usual systematic selection of leaders leads to greater task performance and greater group cohesiveness (also known as group maintenance). Finding significant results here would be beneficial in the workplace if the problem of random selection vs. formal selection is solved as it would help increase group harmony and productivity. The findings of previous research have been varied. In a study very similar in method and aims to this present study found that the random selection of leaders leads to greater task performance. ( Haslam, S.A., McGarty, C., Brown, P.M., Eggins, R.A., Morrison, B.E., & Reynolds, K.J. (1998). Three experiments were done in this study using the same survival task used in this present study. The first two experiments measured task...
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