{"id":7136,"date":"2023-10-19T18:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2023-10-19T18:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:19:51","slug":"the-effect-of-diversity-and-size-on-the-cohesiveness-of-teams-working-on-the-scientific-agricultural-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=7136","title":{"rendered":"The Effect of Diversity and Size on the Cohesiveness of Teams Working on the Scientific Agricultural Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maher Shaheen* (1)<\/sup><\/strong>*<\/sup><\/strong>,\u00a0 Kenda Deeb (2)<\/sup><\/strong> and <\/strong>Fayez Al- Moqdad (3)<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(1). Agricultural Scientific Research Center in Lattakia, General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Damascus, Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

(2). Department of Business Management, Faculty of Economics, Tishreen University, Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

(3). Socio-Economic Research, GCSAR, Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

(*Corresponding author: Maher Shaheen. E-Mail: maher.shaheen@yahoo.com<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Received: 26\/07\/2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Accepted: 27\/03\/2022<\/span><\/p>\n

<Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The present study was conducted on the teams working in the directorates, independent departments, and centers within the general commission of scientific agricultural research during 2019-2021. The study aimed at determining the effect of diversity and size variables on team cohesiveness. Two indicators of diversity were used (diversity in age and diversity in the educational level). Two concepts of team size were also used (team absolute size and team relative size). The diversity variable was measured based on Blau (1977) indicator, while the other variables (absolute team, relative team, and cohesiveness) were measured depending on data collected using a questionnaire designed for this purpose.\u00a0 The questionnaire was distributed to the study sample which consists of 203 teams chosen from the study community which consists of 427 teams by using Stephan Thampson\u2019s equation. The selected sample is made up of 1262 members, that is, the number of distributed questionnaires were 1262. The data was analyzed using SPSS 24. The study arrived at the following conclusions: there is a significant effect of diversity in age and educational level on team cohesiveness. With regards to the size variable, the study showed that there is no significant effect of absolute team size on its cohesiveness, while there is a significant effect of relative size on its cohesiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keywords: <\/strong>work team, team diversity, relative size, absolute size, team cohesiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Full paper in Arabic: pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maher Shaheen* (1)*,\u00a0 Kenda Deeb (2) and Fayez Al- Moqdad (3) (1). Agricultural Scientific Research Center in Lattakia, General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Damascus, Syria. (2). Department of Business Management, Faculty of Economics, Tishreen University, Syria. (3). Socio-Economic Research, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}