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The humble bee has much to teach us about the flow of information in our own organizations. Bees, like human beings, are social
The humble bee has much to teach us about the flow of information in our own organizations. Bees, like human beings, are social
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2012-07-06
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The humble bee has much to teach us about the flow of information in our own organizations. Bees, like human beings, are social animals, and evolution has provided them with elegant approaches to group decision making.
One of the most important group decisions made by a bee colony is where to locate the hive. Bees use a kind of "idea market" to guide their discovery: The colony sends out a small number of scouts to survey the environment. Returning scouts that have found promising sites signal their discoveries with a vigorous dance, thus recruiting more scouts to the better sites. The cycle of exploration and signaling continues until so many scouts are signaling in favor of the best site that a tipping point is reached.
The bees’ decision making highlights both information discovery and information integration , two processes that are crucial to every organization but that have different requirements. A centralized structure works well for discovery, because the individual’s role is to find information and report it back. In contrast, a richly connected network works best for integration and decision making, because it allows the individual to hear everyone else’s opinion about the expected return from each of the alternatives. The bees’ process suggests that organizations that alternate as needed between the centralized structure and the richly connected network can shape information flow to optimize both discovery and integration.
Recent studies at MIT reveal that this sort of oscillation may be characteristic of creative teams. One intriguing study tracked employees in the marketing division of a German bank by having them wear small sensors called sociometers for one month. Sociometers record data a-bout face-to-face interactions such as participants’ identities and the location and duration of the interaction. Analysis of the data showed that teams charged with creating new marketing campaigns oscillated between the centralized communication associated with discovery and densely interconnected conversations that were mostly with other team members. In contrast, the members of implementation groups showed little oscillation, speaking almost exclusively to other team members.
A second study demonstrated not only that creative teams had especially nimble social-communication networks, but also that the amount of oscillation correlated with how productive the creative group judged itself to be. In this study almost 40% of the variation in creative productivity could be attributed to an oscillating pattern of communication strategies for discovery and integration.
Delving deeper into the communication networks of several organizations illuminated the links between productivity and information flow even more. A recent MIT study found that in one organization the employees with the most extensive personal digital networks were 7% more productive than their colleagues — so Wikis and Web 2. 0 tools may indeed improve productivity. In the same organization, however, the employees with the most cohesive face-to-face networks were 30% more productive. Electronic tools may well be suited to information discovery, but face-to-face communication, an often-neglected part of the management process, best supports. [482 words]
The studies at MIT demonstrate that the oscillation between centralized communication and densely interconnected conversations______.
选项
A、works well for creative teams but not for implementation groups
B、helps generate face-to-face interactions among organization members
C、contributes greatly to the creativity of an organization
D、facilitates the switch between discovery and integration in an organization
答案
C
解析
本题考查综合细节。
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