Experimental research about matching relationship between group size and communication mode in group decision-making

Author

Duan, Ying ; Chen, Lei

Author_Institution

Coll. of Mech. Eng., Chong Qing Univ., Chong Qing, China

Volume

Part 1

fYear

2011

fDate

3-5 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

121

Abstract

The matching relationship between group size and communication modes is investigated in this paper. Three teams of students whose average age is 21 years old, and each team is divided into several groups with 3 to 17 persons respectively to take the experiment for an intellectual task, by means of two communication modes of FTF and CM. Quality of schemes created by different groups have been compared, the result shows that group in FTF mode can create better scheme than in CM mode when the group size is smaller (n≤7), and turns reversal when the group size is larger (n≥11).

Keywords

computer mediated communication; decision making; team working; CM mode; FTF mode; communication mode; computer mediated communication mode; face to face communication mode; group decision making; group size; intellectual task; matching relationship; Atmospheric measurements; Computers; Decision making; Educational institutions; Humans; Particle measurements; Psychology; communication mode; group decision; group size;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IE&EM), 2011 IEEE 18Th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changchun

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-446-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEEM.2011.6035119

Filename

6035119