INDIVIDUELLT LÄRANDE I TEAM - En studie av lärstilars inverkan på lärande, effektivitet och prestation

Sammanfattning: Organizational learning has become more and more important in the last decades as the environment in which organizations exist continues to change rapidly and unexpectedly. In order for organizational learning to happen, the individuals within the organization must learn. Just as different individuals possess different skills, each individual also has their own learning style. As the use of teamwork increases, so does the need for techniques to put high performing teams together and with organizational learning as one of the objectives the question is, how do we maximize learning, efficiency and performance in teams? This study uses a quantitative method to examine how teams, from a course at the Stockholm School of Economics, perform on the individual learning, team efficiency and team performance scale based on the individual learning styles within the team. We research if and how the composition of learning styles influence these three measures by categorizing the teams as homogeneous or heterogeneous and examine if there is a significant difference between the two groups using Mann Whitney's U test. The study concludes that there is no significant difference between homogenous and heterogeneous teams performance wise but homogenous seem to show higher perceived individual learning and team efficiency than heterogeneous teams. These results are then discussed in light of the current theoretical framework within the field and managerial implications for team composition within organizations are discussed.