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"Groups that reject formal structure still develop informal structures."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Source authors Jo Freeman

Source year 1972

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Novelty can improve originality in divergent thinking while impairing performance on convergent creativity tasks."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title Unraveling the Effects of Novelty on Creativity

Source authors Marleen Gillebaart; Jens Förster; Mark Rotteveel; Astrid C. M. Jehle

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Task variety is positively associated with job performance in meta-analytic evidence."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title How Culture Shapes the Influence of Work Design Characteristics: A Narrative and Meta-Analytic Review

Source authors Kameron M. Carter; Andrea L. Hetrick; Meng Chen; Stephen E. Humphrey; Frederick P. Morgeson; Brian J. Hoffman

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Novel stimuli can speed subsequent cued motor actions even without explicit reward."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title Stimulus Novelty Energizes Actions in the Absence of Explicit Reward

Source authors Raphael Koster; Tricia X. Seow; Raymond J. Dolan; Emrah Düzel

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Research participation and awareness of being studied can alter behavior, but the conditions, mechanisms, and magnitude of the Hawthorne Effect remain uncertain."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title Systematic review of the Hawthorne effect: New concepts are needed to study research participation effects

Source authors Jim McCambridge; John Witton; Diana R. Elbourne

Source year 2014

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Reanalysis of the original Hawthorne illumination data found that the famous tidy pattern of productivity rising after each lighting change was not present."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

Source authors Steven D. Levitt; John A. List

Source year 2011

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"In the Garbage Can Model, decisions emerge from the interaction of relatively independent streams of problems, solutions, participants, and choice opportunities."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice

Source authors Michael D. Cohen; James G. March; Johan P. Olsen

Source year 1972

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"DeMarco and Lister argue that managers should preserve some chaos rather than eliminate it completely."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Third Edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Book / Offline paper

"Ten years of experience did not outperform two years of experience in the Coding War Games, except that participants with less than six months of experience in the exercise language performed worse than the rest."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS You Are Not Your Last Commit

Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Programming language had little or no correlation with Coding War Games performance, with assembly language as the exception."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS You Are Not Your Last Commit

Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high