Seminario DECON: "Team players: How social skills improve team performance"
Fecha de inicio: 29 de Septiembre, 2020, 14:00 hrs.
Fecha de término: 29 de Septiembre, 2020, 15:00 hrs.
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El martes 29 de marzo a las 14 horas se realizará el Seminario del Departamento de Economía en el que se presentará el trabajo titulado: Team players: How social skills improve team performance.
Expone: David Deming, professor of Public Policy and director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Abstract: Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper we design and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to team production. We randomly assign people to multiple teams and predict team performance based on previously assessed individual skills. Some people consistently cause their team to exceed its predicted performance. We call these individuals “team players”. Team players score significantly higher on a well-established measure of social intelligence, but do not differ across a variety of other dimensions, including IQ, personality, education and gender. Social skills – defined as a single latent factor that combines social intelligence scores with the team player effect – improve team performance about as much as IQ. We find suggestive evidence that team players increase effort among teammates.
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