The effects of group adaptation on task performance: An agent-based approach.

ABSTRACT: Organisations rely upon group formation to solve complex tasks, and groups often adapt to the demands of the task they face by changing their composition periodically. Previous research has often employed experimental, survey-based, and fieldwork methods to study the effects of group adaptation on task performance. This paper, by contrast, employs an agent-based approach to study these effects. There are three reasons why we do so. First, agent-based modelling and simulation allows to take into account further factors that might moderate the relationship between group adaptation and task performance, such as individual learning and task complexity. Second, such an approach allows to study large variations in the variables of interest, which contributes to the generalisation of our results.

SUBMITTER: Blanco-Fernandez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461837 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature