Team Processes
Interaction behavior distinguishes effective from ineffective teams. It is the basis for decision-making and creativity processes in teams, controls team performance and influences the individual well-being and work attitudes of employees.
Emotions and moods shape collaboration and can enhance or diminish team performance. We investigate how group moods are created through emotional contagion processes in team interactions and the role of positive interaction patterns such as humor in team interactions. .
We also explore the role of gender issues in the context of team interactions. In a longitudinal study, we are investigating how the gender of team members affects their own interaction behavior, the reactions of other team members, and the emergence of social interaction patterns over time. In a collaborative project with social psychology, we are investigating the effect of gender stereotypes over the course of interaction. The goal is to gain empirical insights into gender effects at both the individual and team level (gender diversity) and to derive recommendations for action for managers as well as for female employees who want to assert themselves in teams.
More on this in our TeamLab.