Teams

Extreme Teams - Many teams with important missions operate in non-traditional environments where they face added pressures such as isolation and danger. These include teams in Antarctica, space flight, underwater exploration, and wildfire fighting. In partnership with the Magneto Project we use experience sampling and sociometric badge technology to capture team process data over extended periods of time in a variety of extreme environments with the goal of providing insights for supporting teamwork exploring the Final Frontier through deep space missions to Mars and beyond.

Team Composition - Teams provide a more tractable context in which we can investigate the complex effects of diversity on group and organizational processes and outcomes. Team composition research represents an important earthly frontier where research is fraught with inconsistent and conflicting findings. We are drawing on diversity and relational psychological research to build new models for insights into how to construct functional teams which can draw on the strengths of all team members.

• Kuljanin, G., Braun, M. T., Grand, J. A., Olenick, J., Chao, G. T., & Kozlowski, S. W. J. (in press). Advancing leadership and organizational science with computational process theories. Leadership Quarterly.

• Somaraju, A., Griffin, D. J., Olenick, J., Chang, C-H., & Kozlowski, S. W. J. (2024). A dynamic systems theory of intrateam conflict contagion. Journal of Applied Psychology 109(6), 871-896. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001172 (IF: 9.9)

• Gedik, E., Olenick, J., Chang, C-H., Kozlowski, S. W. J., & Hung, H. (2023). Capturing interaction quality in long duration (simulated) space missions with wearables. Transactions on Affective Computing, 14(3), 2139-2152. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3176967 (IF: 14.0)

• Somaraju, A., Griffin, D. J., Olenick, J., Chang, C-H., & Kozlowski, S. W. J. (2022). The dynamic nature of interpersonal conflict and psychological distress in extreme work settings. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 27(1), 53-73. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000290 (IF: 7.7)

• Van Fossen, J. A., Olenick, J., Ayton, J., Chang, C. H., & Kozlowski, S. W. (2021). Relationships between personality and social functioning, attitudes towards the team and mission, and well-being in an ICE environment. Acta Astronautica, 189, 658-670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.09.031 (IF: 3.0)

• Rosenman, E. D., Misisco, A., Olenick, J., …& Fernandez, R., (2021). Does team leader gender matter? A Bayesian reconciliation of leadership and patient care during trauma resuscitations. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2(1), e12348. https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12348 (IF: 2.3)

• Fernandez, R., Rosenman, E.D., Olenick, J., Misisco, A.,…& Chao, G.T. (2020). Simulation-based team leadership training improves team leadership and patient care during actual trauma resuscitations: A randomized controlled trial. Critical Care Medicine, 48(1), 73-82. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000004077 (IF: 8.8)

• Zhang, Y., Olenick, J., Chang, C.-H., Kozlowski, S. W. J., & Hung, H. (2018). TeamSense: Assessing personal affect and group cohesion in small teams through dyadic interaction and behavior analysis with wearable sensors. Proceedings of the Association of Computing Machinery on Interactive, Mobile. Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2(3), Article 150. https://doi.org/10.1145/3264960 (IF: 5.0)

• Zhang, Y., Olenick, J., Chang, C-H., Kozlowski, S. W. J., & Hung, H. (2018). The I in team: Mining personal social interaction routine with topic models from long-term team data. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 421-426. https://doi.org/10.1145/3172944.3172997