Gender diversity in engineering design teams: Investigating emergent states, team processes, and performance

Gül E. Okudan; Susan Mohammed

Gender diversity in engineering design teams: Investigating emergent states, team processes, and performance

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Abstract

This study investigates the impact of gender diversity on a variety of emergent states, team processes, and performance of engineering design teams. Although previous research has found that mixed-gender groups can impact team functioning negatively, the results of data collection on a large team sample size of 117 design teams indicated that the percentage of females had no impact or a positive impact on team dynamics. Despite the numerous challenges involved with being underrepresented in the engineering field and in design teams, team dynamics appear largely unaffected by gender composition for a number of key team process variables.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Inaugural International Conference on Research in Engineering Education, ICREE
State	Published - 2007
Event	Inaugural International Conference on Research in Engineering Education, ICREE - Honolulu, HI, United States Duration: Jun 24 2007 → Jun 27 2007

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Other	Inaugural International Conference on Research in Engineering Education, ICREE
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu, HI
Period	6/24/07 → 6/27/07

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Engineering(all)

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