The Relationship between Teams’ Productivity in FTF & CMC with factors affecting during the implementation stage
Abstract
Productivity is one of the major objectives in team working, and among others aim as efficiency, quality, etc. It is a mean to success in any business. Many of previous studies compare between team productivity in Face To Face communication (FTF) and Computer –mediate Communication (CMC) without considerate factors effects on this productivity which related with partners behavior and manners. This paper studies the correlation between these factors and team productivity in both methods of communication styles. The methodology adopted in this research is the experimental work to measure team productivity into methods during the execution phase. The results show a strong correlation factor between team productivity and total number of work related words in both FTF and CMC for each time interval and this relation was negative in FTF and positive in CMC for 16 experiments . For number of exchanges which consider as a measure of the collaboration degree between team work , the correlation was strong between productivity and number of exchange in both communication techniques. Finally, team productivity was a negative relationship with wasted time and positive with working time
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