Graduate Student Lead(s):
Marlee Johnson, Anna Wolf
Activities Summary:
Overview: This CI project is supporting a grant-funded collaborative effort led by Rice University, with lead co-principal investigators from Michigan State University, the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT), Clemson University, Aptima Inc., and the Group for Organizational Effectiveness, with funding from the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. U.S. Army units are facing increasingly complex operational scenarios, including varied physical landscapes, modular units with increased levels of autonomy in decision making that will be expected to aggregate and disaggregate to meet operational needs, and other novel scenarios as the Army reorients itself toward a broader range of threats. To address these threats, Army leaders must have a better understanding of how to optimize human capital through team selection, staffing, and composition; have real-time methods of assessing teamwork and team performance in situ; and be able to manage coordination across units with varying structures, in a variety of contexts, and in light of events that impact team performance and potentially create the need for additional staffing decisions. Students on this CI team have been working with a range of scholars with expertise in teams, multiteam systems and networks, measurement, advanced analytics and modeling.
Detailed Student Activities: During the 2023-2024 academic year, Creative Inquiry students helped run 12 experimental sessions for the ARI Cooperative Agreement on Team Composition and Dynamics. They also helped recruit participants, create research assistant training videos, clean data, refine the data management process, transcribe audio recordings of the sessions, and assist with dissertation efforts. Carson Goodier continued working on her honor's thesis about emergent leadership. She also presented a poster at the Summer CI + UR Showcase in August, and she was a co-author on a component paper for a symposium on followership, which was accepted to SIOP. Additionally, she is currently a co-author on two papers for submission to INGRoup.
Associated Accomplishments:
+Kish, H., +Schmidt, E., +Snider, N., Shuffler , M., *Johnson, M., Traylor, A. (2024, April). Breaking Gender Stereotypes: Women’s Perceived Effectiveness in Military-Style Roles. Poster presentation at Clemson University 19th Annual Focus on Creative Inquiry Forum, Clemson, SC.
+Goodier, C., Shuffler, M, *Johnson, M., *Wolf, A. (2023, August) All Talk? Participant Speaking Time as a Predictor for Leader Emergence. Poster Presentation at the 7th Annual Summer Creative Inquiry + Undergraduate Research Showcase, Clemson, SC.
Traylor, A. (Chair), *Christenson, K. (Co-Chair), *Johnson, M. (Co-Chair), & Zacarro, S. (Discussant) (2024). Exploring the Murky Intersection of Leadership and Followership [Symposium]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, United States. Baird, N., Woodley, H. J. R., & Benson, A. J. (2024) Want to lead? Be willing to follow: Exploring leadership and followership motives as pathways to leader emergence in teams. *Johnson, M., +Goodier, C., Traylor, A., *Christenson, K., *Wolf, A., Shuffler, M., Carter, D., & Thayer, A.(2024). When following becomes leading: The impact of effective followership on perceptions of leader emergence. Harris-Watson, A., Carter, D., Trainer, H., & Carter, N. (2024) Preferences for different leadership styles: The impact of follower personality.
Graduate Student Lead(s):
Marlee Johnson, Ally Wentworth
Activities Summary:
Overview:
Detailed Student Activities: During the 2023-2024 academic year, Creative Inquiry students helped conduct literature reviews, pilot interview scripts, create Qualtrics surveys, data collection and analysis, create conference submissions, and assist in thesis efforts. Maddigan McGuiness, Riley Heffernan, Jasmine Brown, and Eddie Ianone were co-authors of a SIOP submission on measurement in teams, which was accepted. Additionally, Riley Heffernan presented a poster at the Summer CI + UR Showcase in August injured athletes’ experience of burnout. Jasmine Brown, Riley Heffernan, Emma Weber, and Alexis Sisino are currently helping to co-author two papers for submission to INGRoup.
Associated Accomplishments:
*Wentworth, A.N. (2023). “Fit Check”: Testing a model of perceptions of team-level person-group fit. [Unpublished master's thesis]. Clemson University.
*Wentworth, A.N., *Johnson, M.E., ᐩHefferan, R.E., ᐩBrown, J. W., ᐩMcGuinness, M. M., ᐩIonnone, E. O., Shuffler, M.L. (April, 2024). There is No I in [Component] Team: Exploring Referent Shifts in Multiteam System [Poster]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, United States
Blanchard, A. (Panelist), Evans, B. (Panelist), Gaffney, A. (Panelist), *Wentworth, A. (Panelist), & *Johnson, M. E. (Facilitator). (July, 2023). What is a Group? Entitativity and the Heterogeneity of Groups [Panel]. The Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research Annual Conference, Bellevue, WA, United States
ᐩHeffernan, R., Shuffler , M., *Johnson, M., & *Wentworth, A. (2023, August). Get your head in the Game: A Qualitative exploration of student-athletes experiences with injury and burnout. Poster presentation at the 7th Annual Summer Creative Inquiry + Undergraduate Research Showcase, Clemson, SC.
Shuffler, M.L. (PI, 60%), Traylor, A. M. (Co-I, 10%), *Wentworth, A. N., *Johnson, M.E., Honnen, N.(Co-I ), Lowder, M. (Co-I), Shaffer, C. (Co-I ) & Anderson, P. (Co-I). Getting to “All-In:” Team Development in the Context of NCAA Sports Teams. Robert H. Brooks Sports Science Institute, 08/15/2023-08/14/2024, $50,000.
+Sisino, A., +Schlag, S., +Lavin, S., *Johnson, M., *Wentworth, A., & Shuffler , M. (2024, April). Exploring the Relationship Between Team Psychological Climate and Perceptions of Performance in Collegiate Athletics. Poster presentation at Clemson University 19th Annual Focus on Creative Inquiry Forum, Clemson, SC.
Graduate Student Lead(s):
Kyle Christenson
Activities Summary:
Overview: Have you ever wondered how the teams of people who work on shows like SNL, South Park, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah are able to come up with such creative content in such a short amount of time? What stands in the way of creativity in teams like these and what can we do to help teams reach their creative potential? Come to think of it, what even is creativity? As a research initiative of the Developing and Improving Globally Integrated Teamwork and Leadership (DIGITAL) Lab, we are interested in exploring these topics by specifically looking at what goes on during team meetings that helps or hinders creative processes and outcomes. This year, we were focused on two separate projects. First, we worked on finishing up a systematic review about different tools used to measure problem construction, an essential piece of creativity in teams, during team meetings. Next, we worked on refining an experimental paradigm to validate a novel assessment of team meeting health/quality, which includes measures of all meeting behaviors that have been statistically significant in predicting important meeting outcomes in previously published research.
Detailed Student Activities: During the 2023-2024 academic year, Creative Inquiry students helped conduct literature reviews, create and pilot experimental scripts, create Qualtrics surveys, develop experimental protocol, and collect and analyze data to be used for both academic conference submissions and manuscript publications.
During the Fall 2023 semester, multiple students worked on coding papers for inclusion in a systematic review of the process of problem construction in teams, the results of which were written up and submitted to the Small Group Research journal for publication (recently rejected) and the INGRoup 2024 Conference for presentation (recently accepted).
During the Spring 2024 semester, Becca Noel-Harman, Charlonda Smith, and Iyana Birtha worked on developing and refining an experimental paradigm to explore the validity of a newly proposed team meeting behavior assessment. These students also presented a poster about this work at the Spring FOCI event in April.
Associated Accomplishments:
*Christenson, K., Japp, P., Traylor, A., Reiter-Palmon, R., Allen, J., & Shuffler, M. (2024). A systematic literature review of measuring problem construction in teams [manuscript in progress].
*Christenson, K., Japp, P., Traylor, A., Reiter-Palmon, R., Allen, J., & Shuffler, M. (2024, July). A systematic literature review of measuring problem construction in teams [Poster or Paper]. The Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, United States.
Noel-Harman, B., Smith, C., Birtha, I., & *Christenson, K. (2024, April). Minutes kept or
hours lost?: Uncovering team dynamics through the coding of meeting behaviors. Poster presentation at Clemson University 19th Annual Focus on Creative Inquiry Forum, Clemson, SC.
Graduate Student Lead(s):
Sydney Begerowski
Activities Summary:
Overview: The future work environment is one where advanced technology is no longer just a tool, but a teammate. As an interdisciplinary research initiative of the DIGITAL lab and in collaboration with Automotive Engineering, we are interested in better understanding how artificial intelligence and robotics can function as team members in complex, dynamic environments. This includes, but is not limited to, research topics such as human-robot interaction, team and multiteam system design, and collaboration. The purpose of this CI team is to examine models of interaction between advanced technology and human counterparts specifically in the context of manufacturing and construction. If you are interested in collaboration and teaming, robotics, artificial intelligence, systems design, human engineering, or any combination of the above, this CI team is likely to be a great fit for you. CI members on this team will be involved in research including literature reviews, theory development, interviews, focus groups, and observations, and other qualitative and quantitative research efforts.
Detailed Student Activities: During the 2023-2024 academic year, Creative Inquiry students helped create and pilot experimental conditions, develop user interface platforms, conduct experimental sessions, and analyze data to be used for both academic conference submissions and manuscript publications.
During the Fall 2023 semester, multiple students worked on creating and piloting four experimental conditions. During this process, they iterated the experimental design, tested Wizard of Oz methodology, and used platforms like Figma to create a robot interface. Once finalized, students were trained to independently lead data collection sessions.
During the Spring 2024 semester, students continued to collect data, resulting in over 40 sessions being conducted for the year. Once collection concluded, students learned coding skills in R to help analyze data. Preliminary findings were presented at FOCI by Sarah Mendoza, who also co-authored a submission to the INGRoup 2024 Conference for presentation (recently accepted).
Associated Accomplishments:
*Begerowski, S.R., +Mendoza, S., Traylor, A.M., Rosopa, P., Mears, L. & Shuffler, M.L. (2024, July). Did you double check that? Understanding behavioral indicators of trust in human-autonomy teams. In J.L. Wildman & A.L. Thayer, Advances in Human-Agent Teaming Research (Symposium). Accepted to the Annual Conference for the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research. Charlotte, NC, United States.
+Mendoza, S., *Begerowski, S., Mears, L., Shuffler, M. (2024, April). Shouldn’t You Expect the Unexpected? Discerning Reliance within Human Autonomy-Teams. Poster presentation at Clemson University 19th Annual Focus on Creative Inquiry Forum, Clemson, SC.