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Board 98: Exploring the Relationship Between Team Personality and Team Dynamics in Construction Project Teams: A Literature Review

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Poster Session

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Page Count

8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43336

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https://peer.asee.org/43336

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298

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Rebecca Kassa University of Kansas Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-9573-8547

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PhD Student in the department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas. Specializing in Construction Engineering and Management.

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Tolulope Ibilola Ogundare University of Kansas, Lawrence

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Ibilola Ogundare is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas. She specializes in construction engineering and management.

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Brian Lines The University of Kansas Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-7998-1053

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Jake Smithwick University of North Carolina at Charlotte Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-6260-3670

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Dr. Jake Smithwick is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. His research focuses on organizational performance benchmarking within facility management, construction, and business services. His industry experience include

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Kenneth Timothy Sullivan Arizona State University

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Abstract

Team dynamics and personality play an essential role in the success of construction projects. Construction project teams comprise professionals working together to design, detail, and construct a project. Team dynamics impact the collaboration and interaction of these project teams. How and why some teams "click" better than others, can be described by the strength of their collective personality. In this ongoing study, we conducted a literature review to explore the relationship between team personality and team dynamics and examine how to derive group-level personality measures from individual member inputs. Our review recognized the existence of a strong relationship between team personality and team dynamics. Although previous research on team composition has examined the impact of individual team member personalities on their team functioning, only a few studies have inspected collective team personality and its effect on team dynamics. While some efforts have been made to derive overall team personalities from the mean or variance of individual team member personalities, the results are somewhat inconsistent. There is still less conclusive evidence showing how to determine group-level personalities. Our review also noted that the construction sector has not fully incorporated personality traits as team-level constructs in design and construction project teams. The combined personality of all team members, including the owner, architect, engineer, contractor, key subcontractors, and other subject matter experts lacks full integration into construction research. Implications and recommendations are presented at the end of this paper.

Kassa, R., & Ogundare, T. I., & Lines, B., & Smithwick, J., & Sullivan, K. T. (2023, June), Board 98: Exploring the Relationship Between Team Personality and Team Dynamics in Construction Project Teams: A Literature Review Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43336

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