Resumen de Considering capstone team member roles with a shared leadership framework
Brian Novoselich, Daria Kotys-Schwartz, Kimberly Demoret, Marco Nunez, Patricia Brackin
Managing student roles and responsibilities in team-based courses often presents challenges for both faculty and students. At the2018 Capstone Design Conference, a panel discussion specifically addressed the impact of roles and responsibilities on teams incapstone design. This paper summarizes the main discussion points of that panel session and relates these topics to a model ofshared leadership and distributed influence in the innovation process. The shared leadership model addressed in this studycombines an Input-Process-Output (IPO) model from research on teams with existing leadership behavior literature to link teamcharacteristics and leadership practices to team responses and team effectiveness. The students and faculty that comprised the panelrepresented diverse areas: engineering practice, military teams, academia, and undergraduate design. Detailed notes from the panelsession were analyzed by panel members to identify themes and current practices that emerged from the discussion. These themesand practices were mapped to the existing shared leadership model to situate the phenomena in the larger IPO model and positionsthe phenomena in current organizational leadership literature. The result of this study is a capstone design-specific adaptation ofthe existing shared leadership model. This model provides capstone faculty and students a more comprehensive framework in whichto consider how team roles and responsibilities may affect team response and effectiveness. Conclusions from this study stress thecriticality of capstone design faculty in team formation to foster shared leadership. The framework suggests that shared leadershipwithin the team may elicit positive team response through accountability and responsibility and will lead to greater teameffectiveness. Specific recommendations for capstone design courses are offered and recommendations for future research areaddressed.
