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Toward Designing Optimal Problem-Solving Procedures: Comparisons of Male and Female Interacting Groups.

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Mathews, Robert C.; And Others – Group and Organization Studies, 1982

Compared performances for male and female groups using three different group problem-solving procedures: unstructured, structured-open, and structured-forced. Results indicated that female groups performed better with the structured-forced procedure than with the structured-open procedure. Male groups performed better with the structured-open…

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Group Dynamics, Group Structure

Life Styles and Conflict-Coping Structures

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Friedlander, Frank; Green, P. Toni – Group and Organization Studies, 1977

The hypothesis was that structures built by group members in dealing with conflict and decision making would be contingent on their life styles. Three different sets of groups of persons with homogeneous life styles created three different (and predicted) structures in a problem-solving task. (Author)

Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Group Membership, Group Structure