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Freeriding: Pam's and another

  • 1.  Freeriding: Pam's and another

    Posted 10-15-2007 16:09

    Dear Stan:

    I do what Pam does, with one addition. I have students rate on a 1-5 Likert Disagree-Agree scale the extent to which they would want to work with each of the group members again. Usually it follows closely what Pam's scale says, but occasionally it provides a different insight. I once had all the members of a group "divide the bonus" equally among all members, but then to a person they all said they never wanted to work with Member X again. What it revealed was that X did his/her work, but was an absolute pill for everyone to get along with. This was highly consistent with my observations as well. Since an important objective of the project was to learn to work effectively in a team, the added scale provided evidence that this did not happen.

    Good luck to you!
    Roger Mayer


    -----Original Message-----
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv on behalf of Perrewe, Pamela
    Sent: Mon 10/15/2007 12:34 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: Re: dealing with student team freeriders

    Dear Stan:

    Using 100%, I have my students put percentages of work for each person in their group.  Thus, if there are 5 people and most everyone gives group members 20%, I am pretty confident that they all participated fairly equally.  If, however, several group members rate one individual as doing very little, I am more confident lowering the group grade for this person.  It's not perfect, but it helps.

    Pam




    Pamela L. Perrewe
    Distinguished Research Professor
    Jim Moran Professor of Management
    College of Business
    Florida State University
    Tallahassee, FL  32306-1110


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    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv on behalf of Stanley Williamson
    Sent: Mon 10/15/2007 11:48 AM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: dealing with student team freeriders



    Hi, all-

    I use permanent student teams in my OB classes using Dr. Michaelsen's team based learning pedagogy. While I use peer evaluations at semester's end worth about 5% of the semester total points, I am still looking for other mechanisms to minimize or deal with freeriding. Any ideas would be appreciated.

    Thanks.

    stan



    Stan Williamson, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Scott Endowed Professor for Teaching Excellence, 1999-2002

    Management Program
    College of Business Administration
    University of Louisiana at Monroe
    Monroe, LA 71209-0100
    318.342.1195
    fax: 318.342.1101