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- Title
MANAGING I/S DESIGN TEAMS: A CONTROL THEORIES PERSPECTIVE.
- Authors
Henderson, John C.; Soonchul Lee
- Abstract
The control relationship between project managers and team members is a central aspect of the working of any Information System (I/S) design team. This paper combines research on managerial control and team-member control in order to explore a range of control behaviors that can affect the performance of an I/S design team. Measures are developed and validated for managerial control and team-member control from both an outcome and a process perspective. Results from a study of 41 actual I/S design teams indicate that high-performing teams exhibit high process control by managers and high outcome control by team members. The results also support the proposition that both managerial and team-member control coexists and that increases in the total level of control behavior is positively correlated with performance.
- Subjects
PROJECT management; RESEARCH on teams in the workplace; GROUP decision making; INFORMATION resources management; PERSONNEL management &; psychology; PROCESS control systems; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology research; INDUSTRIAL management &; psychology; EMPLOYEE participation in management; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Management Science, 1992, Vol 38, Issue 6, p757
- ISSN
0025-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/mnsc.38.6.757