Purpose: Organizations and their actors are increasingly using video surveillance to monitor organizational members, employees, clients, and customers. The use of such technologies in workplaces creates a virtual panopticon and increases uncertainty for those under surveillance. Video...

Most interpersonal or group communication via the Internet involves people who are not co-present and are not interacting at the same time. Typically, messages contain only text and graphics. This means that people cannot use tone of voice or nonverbal signals to judge the accuracy of messages...

Dispersed multinational teams include people from multiple nations, some of whom are not collocated. In a knowledge economy, such teams must locate, store, allocate, and retrieve knowledge. Three central questions are: (a) How can dispersed multinational teams manage knowledge resource flows?...

This chapter investigates the effects of gender stereotypes on expectations about expertise and task assignments. We present a theoretical model that predicts and explains the pervasive and self-reinforcing effects of gender-based stereotypes on expected knowledge and task assignments in groups....

1. Designing for drift : planning ethnographic qualitative research on groups / Michael G. Pratt and Najung Kim -- 2. Experimental designs for research on small groups : the five Ps / Patrick R. Laughlin -- 3. Running laboratory experiments with groups / Gwen M. Wittenbaum -- 4. Group research...

Groups typically are composed of members with different knowledge, information, and expertise. Group discussion provides the means by which members can communicate their unique knowledge to reach better group decisions, develop a shared system for remembering and retrieving knowledge, and...