Contribution to Book
How Interacting Groups Remember: Implications for Learning by Groups in Organizations
The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning
(2017)
Abstract
Remembering and learning by groups in organizations involves a number of complex challenges. Group remembering encompasses all of the memory processes associated with individuals as well as the social processes involved with collaboration. To guide our review, we explore the roles that cognitive, social, and motivational processes play in group remembering. Additionally, contexts have dramatic influences on group remembering and learning. Thus, we consider how task, group composition, and organizational characteristics impact the processes of group remembering and its vital functions for learning in groups. Shared cognitive representations emerge as key constructs in this research and reflect the combined cognitive-social-motivational processes applicable to many contexts. Throughout this chapter, we rely upon organizational examples of group remembering and learning in groups. We conclude that a critical factor that differentiates effective from ineffective groups in organizations is a group’s willingness to remember and learn from its experiences.
Keywords
- group remembering,
- memory in groups,
- learning in groups,
- memory performance,
- characteristics of contexts,
- collaborative memory
Disciplines
Publication Date
June, 2017
Editor
Linda Argote and John M. Levine
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Citation Information
Verlin B Hinsz, Kevin R Betts, Miriam Sánchez-Manzanares and R. S. Tindale. "How Interacting Groups Remember: Implications for Learning by Groups in Organizations" The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/r-tindale/9/