Publication Date
11-2018
Abstract
Traditional business theory promoted the ideal of business as a family: everyone should feel good about each other, all employees should feel good working together towards a joint goal. Recently, however, researchers claim that the well-promoted ideal is unattainable, it is a ruse causing everyone to overwork. Instead, these researchers propose a non-emotional collaboration of adults working temporarily on a joint project. In this paper, we show that this new trend is not just based on anecdotal evidence, it actually has a solid foundation in decision theory. So maybe we should apply this new trend to teaching too - and place less emphasis on the need for everyone to become friends and for team-building? Maybe -- like the new business trend suggests -- we should reserve our feeling for our real families?
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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-18-77