By Rylee Linhardt, Undergraduate Research Assistant Multidisciplinary teams are becoming more common, and are especially prevalent in healthcare and engineering professions. These teams differ from others in that multidisciplinary teams combine two or more members of different disciplines to solve problems. I had the opportunity to work with CORE lab members Tiffany Bisbey and Jensine […]
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Communication in the Workplace in a Digital Age: Making First Impressions Through Email
By Lily Cao, Undergraduate Research Assistant Marlow, Lacerenza, and Iwig’s study manipulates gender, closing salutation, and sending method in an experimental design in order to determine whether these factors influence the first impressions a sender makes through email. The inspiration for the study comes from technology’s increasingly essential role in people’s everyday lives. Not only […]
Patient Safety and Team Training
By Shamanth Kuramkote, Undergraduate Research Assistant The majority of the population considers their physicians to be trustworthy. Doctors and healthcare professionals are some of the most trusted professionals in the country, but also some of the most stressed. The average work day of healthcare professionals can be very hectic and stressful, which leads to sometimes […]
Implementing Team Training Intervention for School Mental Health: Difficulties and Lessons
By Daphne Campo, Undergraduate Research Assistant As it stands today, low-resource schools in urban areas provide mental health support through contracted community mental health workers. While it is necessary to provide such care for all children in the school system, this poses a larger problem; these kinds of services can face team functioning problems and […]
The Science of Teamwork: Progress, Reflections, and the Road Ahead
By Alyssa Curry, Undergraduate Research Assistant Teams are present in virtually every organizational context. Therefore, it’s important that research is up-to-date on team-related processes and outcomes in order to develop more efficient teams in the workplace. CORE researcher Denise Reyes first identifies 10 crucial reflections drawn from various reviews and articles, and then delineates 3 […]
Rice I/O Psychologists Challenge Diversity Training Myths
By Oria Wilson-Iguade, Undergraduate Research Assistant Diversity training has become an impactful tool in managing the workplace environment. In fact, studies have proven such a sentiment, showing that diversity training can lead to increased employee retention rates, better intergroup interactions, awareness of cultural bias, reduction of workplace harassment, and increased fairness and equality in the […]
Leader Emergence Traits in Self-Managed Teams
By Alyssa Curry and Lois De Leon, Undergraduate Research Assistants Self-managed teams differ from traditional teams in organizations in that they do not assign a leader upon the team’s inception. Instead, leader emergence is a bottom-up process by which leaders develop organically, often dubbed “shared leadership.” CORE Lab alumna Christina Lacerenza explored predictors of emergent […]
Leading Effectively Through Crisis
By Shamanth Kuramkote, Undergraduate Research Assistant In the midst of one of the worst hurricane seasons recorded, it seems that the rate of these natural crises is increasing. Natural disasters and crises can affect many different aspects of people’s lives, which is why they often require wider more unique responses from leaders. In their recent […]
Rejection Sensitivity in the Workplace
By Brook Lu and Ethan Schweissing, Undergraduate Research Assistants Everyone deals with rejection, from applying to colleges to interviewing for jobs to asking for a raise. Because rejection is a pertinent topic to everyone, Denise Reyes has been motivated to perform further research into rejection and how it motivates us. Denise successfully defended her master’s thesis […]
CORE Team Spotlight: Molly Kilcullen
By Madeleine Fuselier and Manlin Yao Undergraduate Research Assistants Molly Kilcullen is a first-year Industrial and Organizational Psychology PhD student here in the Consortium for Organizational Resilience and Effectiveness (CORE) Lab at Rice University with overall research interests in teamwork and, in particular, individual selection in teams. Molly is especially passionate about looking at teams […]