By: Luis Gomez Integrating foreign workers into the US workforce has become a complex and contentious topic in recent years. It is crucial to address the challenges and opportunities associated with their inclusion. Therefore, exploring evidence-based strategies for facilitating teamwork and successfully integrating them into society is essential (Massey & Pren, 2014). Doing so will […]

By: Ashley Haygood Toxic behavior within teams is typically understood in academic literature as uncivil, unprofessional, and disruptive toward others. Several concrete definitions exist within the literature, some of which portray these behaviors as multi-faceted. For example, Holloway and Kusy (2010) identify three common forms of toxic team member behavior: shaming (e.g., humiliating others, pointing […]

By: Nabira Adnan The prevalence of e-communication and virtual meeting platforms has aided in creating a more globalized economy in the United States. These tools can facilitate efficient communication  between international branches within a company and with other businesses. These international networks result in people from diverse backgrounds collaborating together.  Aside from the opportunity for […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]