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Project managers should pay attention to the way they divide a team into subgroups — equally sized subgroups tend to perform and collaborate better than subgroups of differing sizes, according to a new study.
Creating smaller teams within a project team is an effective way to split and complete complex tasks. But what is the best way to divide a project team into smaller groups?
One straightforward suggestion is to make the groups equal in size, according to “Friends and Enemies Within: The Roles of Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams,” a research paper recently published by MIT Sloan School of Management that examined teams made up of geographically dispersed subgroups.
The study used 62 teams of six undergraduates. Each six-person team was then broken down into subgroups of different sizes with members on different campuses.
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