Some faculty members become frustrated with students surreptitiously using smartphones during class time. The best discipline today is the same as it was 37 years ago — namely, a good lesson plan.

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College courses designed for maximum participation include group projects, case studies, simulations, role playing, and so forth. These activities are essential with reference to student development.

Teamwork can be challenging. Teams often need to overcome an inherent inertia, which operates almost like an iron law of groups. The inherent inertia we refer to here is social loafing—the behavioral ...

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FRENCH engineer Max Ringelmann was measuring the force exerted by workers pulling on a rope about a century ago. He noticed something interesting. When more men were added to the experiment, the pull ...

In 1913, French professor of agricultural engineering Max Ringelmann asked a group of men to pull on a rope as individuals and as part of a group. If you’ve ever been on a large group project, you ...

You must have clapped in a group or engaged in a group rope-pulling contest. During the exercise, you either rubbed your palms or simply held the rope while pretending to clap or pull. You felt safe ...

A hot potato: While there are plenty of justifiable fears about robots, AI, and general automation taking jobs, the technologies have also been hailed for their ability to augment human tasks. But a ...

The mechanics of loafing are subtle. To hear Wharton organizational psychologist Adam Grant tell it, at-work freeloading is a heady cocktail: a mixture of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, of internal ...