International Journal of Education and Management Studies

Tilottama Mukherjee ¹, Aditi Patra ¹, Shubhangi Goswami ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, IN

Abstract

The advent of technology has brought about marked changes in the traditional structure of teams; face- to- face teams are supplemented with another kind of team, which is now known as virtual team. Humans have been collaborating across geographical boundaries for thousands of years, a phenomenon that is bringing the world closer, making work easier yet which is both problematic and complicated. Global organizations see benefits of collaboration across distance as a mean of providing focused attention to complex problems without physically relocating individuals. The objective of this study is to compare the face- to- face teams and virtual teams on the basis of motivation and team effectiveness. The relationship between motivation and team effectiveness, in these two types of set up has also been studied. The total sample size is 100, equally distributed in two types of teams face to face (n=50) and virtual teams (n=50) respectively. Motivational Analysis of Organization Behaviour (2002) and Team Effectiveness Scale (1997) developed by Udai Pareek were administered on the employees belonging to two different types of teams from various IT sector companies in Kolkata. Results revealed a significant difference between face to face and virtual teams on all the dimensions of motivation, except for achievement motivation. Achievement motivation seems to be not affected by the difference in space and time. The location of members and their interaction with each other produce motivation of dependence, control, efferent, affiliation and influence on the team members. A significant relationship between affiliation motivation and team effectiveness in face to face teams was found.

Keywords

Face to Face Team, Virtual Team, Motivation, Team Effectiveness

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Tilottama Mukherjee ¹, Phooljani Ghosh ², Kasturi Sengupta ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Calcutta University, Kolkata, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Calcutta University, Kolkata, West Bangal, IN

Abstract

Over the past few years, increasing numbers of Indian mothers whose children are still young have started working outside their homes. To explore the impact of this maternal employment, a sample of 120 adolescents, 60 with working mothers and 60 with mothers who were fulltime homemakers, 30 males and 30 females in each sub sample was chosen. Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Bell Adjustment Inventory (student form), and Parental Attachment Questionnaire were administered to study their personality, adjustment pattern and attachment to their parents respectively.Mean,SD and F test were computed. The results revealed that there is a significant effect of the job status of mother on the subject's adjustment in the area of health and hostility-friendliness and a combined effect of both the variables (job status of mother and gender of adolescent) on personality dimension of extroversion-introversion and neuroticism-stability, their adjustment in the area of submissiveness-self assertion and their attachment to their parent.

Keywords

Personality, Adjustment, Parent-Child Relationship.

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