Volume 1
Volume 1, Number 54 |
December 31, 2003 |
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Debra Landry Folse
Herbert E. (Bart) Longenecker, Jr
Roy J. Daigle
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Abstract: Is there a way to provide simple guidelines for team communication that could easily be adopted by individuals? In his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey suggests that applying his small collection of guidelines or “habits” will result in successful group interaction. A study was conducted to examine the influence of Covey-centered habit training on student teams involved in information systems projects. The study applied different treatments of Covey training to undergraduate and graduate student project teams at the beginning of their information systems project development. At the conclusion of the project development, a survey instrument was distributed to collect information about Covey knowledge, self-assessed perceptions of applying Covey habits for a team project, and self-assessed perceptions of competency in information systems development. The study results suggest that, while there may be no significant difference in Covey skill knowledge and self-assessed perceptions of competency in information systems development between the control group and the experimental group, there may be a significant difference in the self-assessed perceptions of mastery of Covey-centered independent and interdependent habits.
Keywords: teams, team projects, groups, group projects, information systems projects, team communication, Covey habits
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Recommended Citation: Folse, Longenecker, and Daigle (2003). Influence of Covey Habit Training on Teams. Information Systems Education Journal, 1 (54). http://isedj.org/1/54/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2003: §2233. ISSN: 1542-7382.)