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Trial Title
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Group performance in a creative task
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Team performance in a creative task
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Abstract
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There is common ground to believe in a difference in productivity when people are working together depending on the consistency and the composition of the team with respect to their personal characteristics. The way groups are put and kept together is key to a successful organization. In this trial, we focus on creative tasks. Personal characteristics of people in these kinds of tasks are displayed to a varying extent and the influence of character traits and team consistency is arguably different. We focus on both effects in our evaluation of the trial and consider time perspectives as influential character traits. The trial consists of a two-person task of 4 minutes executed two times with a little break. In the treatment group, subject teams are randomly changed after 4 minutes, while in the control group teams are kept together for the overall 8 minutes. The creative task requires the teams to create pictures of given terms with given items.
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There is common ground to believe in a difference in productivity when people are working together depending on the consistency and the composition of teams with respect to their personal characteristics. The way teams are built and kept together is key to a successful organization. In this trial, we focus on creative tasks. Personal characteristics of people in these task settings are displayed to a varying extent and the influence of character traits and team consistency is arguably different. We focus on both effects in our evaluation of the trial and consider time perspectives as an influential character trait. The trial consists of a two-person task of 4 minutes executed two times with a little break. In the treatment group, subject teams are randomly changed after 4 minutes, while in the control group teams are kept together for the overall 8 minutes. The creative task requires the teams to recreate given terms with given items.
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Trial End Date
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April 30, 2021
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December 31, 2021
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Last Published
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February 03, 2021 05:42 AM
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April 19, 2021 04:13 PM
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Intervention End Date
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March 31, 2021
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October 31, 2021
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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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Quantity of the pictures constructed respectively the combinations typed as performed by the groups. Quality of the pictures independently rated and number of mistakes in combinations. Originality in the creative task evaluated by the used pieces compared among all groups to create the pictures.
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Quantity of the recreated terms by the teams. Quality of the recreated terms independently rated. Originality in the creative task evaluated by the used pieces compared among all teams to recreate the terms.
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Experimental Design (Public)
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The trial consists of a two-person task of 4 minutes executed two times with a little break. In the treatment group, subject groups are randomly changed after 4 minutes, while in the control group, groups are kept together for the overall 8 minutes. The creative task requires the groups to create pictures of given terms with given items.
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The trial consists of a two-person task of 4 minutes executed two times with a little break. In the treatment group, teams are randomly changed after 4 minutes, while in the control group, teams are kept together for the overall 8 minutes. The creative task requires the teams to recreate terms with given items.
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Randomization Method
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Subjects are randomly assigned to groups by drawing cards
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Subjects are randomly assigned to teams by drawing cards.
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Randomization Unit
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Individual level
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Team level randomization for the treatment and individual level randomization of team composition.
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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80 groups of two subjects
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80 teams of two subjects
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Additional Keyword(s)
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Group performance, creative tasks
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Team performance, creative tasks
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Keyword(s)
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Firms And Productivity, Labor
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Behavior, Firms And Productivity, Labor
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