From Current State to Desired Future: How Compositional Changes Affect Dissent and Innovation in Work Groups

Rebels in Groups: Dissent, Deviance, Difference and Defiance

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 54-72

  Rink, Floor ^a   Ellemers, Naomi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behaviours, functional for individuals to gain or maintain their position within a changing work group; Changes in group composition; Changes in group's composition influencing behaviour, task contributions of existing group members; Compositional changes entry of newcomers into a work group; Compositional changes fact of organisational life; Current state to desired future compositional changes, affecting dissent and innovation in work groups; Effects of newcomers on dissent and innovation in work groups; Identifying conditions increasing pressures to adapt to existing practices; Influence of their fear for positional change on self related concerns; Newcomer similarity and performance expectations

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EID: 84886569744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390841.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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