Abstract
Previous research has demonstrated the benefit of higher levels of cognitive style diversity and task-specific self-efficacy beliefs on team performance in complex tasks. This study aims to add to this growing body of literature by exploring the effects of both cognitive diversity and the self-efficacy beliefs of design teams on final design solutions. The final designs produced by 55 student design teams in a junior-level mechanical engineering course were analyzed, and measures of team-level cognitive diversity and task-specific self-efficacy beliefs were collected. Results indicate that higher cognitive diversity and aggregate engineering design self-efficacy levels of design teams significantly impact final design characteristics; aggregate creative self-efficacy had no effect on design characteristics.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 71-102 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Journal | Design Studies |
| Volume | 60 |
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| State | Published - Jan 2019 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Architecture
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- General Engineering
- General Social Sciences
- Computer Science Applications
- Artificial Intelligence