RESEARCH and PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Kieran Lees MBA MSc DBA
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A selection of research and peer reviewed publications from Dr. Kieran Lees
This site provides a single source for published or approved research from the author.
Kieran Lees research focus is in organisational behaviour and design, specifically focusing on underlying mechanisms and processes that exist within groups and teams. Based on an initial action research study over a nine months period, the author offers novel theory in the areas of group cohesiveness, teamship, group stage development, shared purpose, organisational purpose, self motivation and group interdependency.
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The findings of Dr. Lees research contribute to both theory and practice, and are of potential significance in contemporary environments, where the norms of group and team working are altered through technological, social and legal change.
RESEARCH and PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed
DOCTORAL THESIS: Doctor of Business Administration
Examining group purpose and self-motivation as antecedents to cohesiveness in groups: An action research inquiry exploring a notion of “teamship”
Group Cohesiveness: Group cohesiveness is a temporally fluid multi-dimensional construct
The multi-dimensional structures of group cohesiveness (task, interpersonal and group pride) emerge temporally and are constructed at an individual-level as primary, secondary and tertiary bonds from each individual and which co-exist depending on the group’s purpose and the personal motivations of the group member. These bonds can be temporally fluid.