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Company: University of Sheffield

Department: Management School

Salary: £30,688 to £38,833 per annum. Potential to progress to £42,418 per annum through sustained exceptional contribution.

Hours: Full Time

Contract type: Fixed-Term/Contract

Type / Role: Academic or Research

Phone: +44-1494 7994171

Fax: +44-1274 7496215

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Sheffield University Management School, the Faculty of Social Sciences’ largest department, has achieved accreditation from the three largest and most influential business school associations: AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS.

The mission of Sheffield University Management School is to use our world class research base to develop knowledgeable and employable students, promote socially-responsible work practices, and have a positive impact on organisations and society throughout the world. We sustain a research-intensive environment that creates, advances, and disseminates knowledge with respect to management inquiry, for the benefit of students, private and public sector organisations, and society in general. Our relocation to a fully refurbished building in June 2013 provides modern facilities in which to achieve our ambitions.

The “Behaviour in Teams” (BiT) project began in 2015 with a post-doctoral fellowship examining how behaviour in team meetings can predict team performance, and whether providing feedback to teams and individuals can lead to changes in behaviour over a series of meetings. More broadly, it seeks to develop methods that can assist in students and others learn how they can work more effectively in teams.

Its principal methodology is an observation and coding scheme in which team meetings are witnessed by an external observer. Using a bespoke app, the observer codes each interaction in the meeting, and feeds back information about behaviours to individuals and teams after each meeting. Then changes in behaviour over the course of a week’s meetings are analysed, and compared with team performance, perceptions of team working, and perceptions of each team member’s contribution. In 2017 we observed 165 undergraduate engineering student teams engaged in intensive, week-long modules, and were also able to examine experimentally how providing teams with feedback affected behaviour compared with not giving feedback.

The project is now being expanded so that the method developed can be rolled out to more settings, with more flexibility. As part of this expansion, the core team is being expanded to include three behavioural researchers, an information manager/programmer, and this post – a Skills Developer. You will play a key role in designing instruction both for students undertaking team tasks, via brief sessions embedded within week-long or similar modules, and for observers being trained in observing teams, coding, and giving feedback. The successful candidate will hold a good honours degree (or equivalent experience) and have experience of working in an educational setting. Experience of working within a research team and of curriculum design are essential.

Our website offers more information about all aspects of the School’s activity. Please see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/management for more details.

This post is full-time and fixed-term until 31 October 2019. The closing date for applications is 18 September 2017.

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