Global TaskForce Innovation Project

1. Global TaskForce Innovation Project GAIN UNIQUE EXPERTISE THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

2. Agenda • Outline of project • Your tasks • Questions • Consent Forms

3. Global Taskforce Innovation Project Dr. Stephen Zaccaro (Co-PI) Tiffani Chen Tracy McCausland Samantha Holland Dr. Vincent Mangematin Dr. Barthelemy Chollet Dr. Stephen Fiore (Co-PI) Dr. Leslie DeChurch (PI) Raquel Ascencio Peter Seely Amy Wax Dorothy Carter

4. The Business Trend of Today’s World: Globalization • Today’s business world is COMPLEX GLOBAL • Multi-discipline teams

5. Teams Working With Teams • Because of the requirements of today’s business world… • YOU will likely be a part of a team that must work closely with other teams! • It is helpful to gain experience in this vital skill EARLY in your career

6. Global Taskforce Innovation Project • Designed to give you experience working in the types of organizational structures and develop skills that are common in today’s global economy: • International/ Multi-disciplinary collaboration • Virtual communication • Real-world problem solving • Competition against deadlines and industry standards

7. Our Complex Problem • Atlantic Ocean Fish Stocks are expected to collapse by the year 2050 • Based on a four-year study of 7,800 marine species worldwide • Findings showed that by 2048, catches of currently fished seafood will have declined by more than 90% since 1950

8. Why Should We Care About Atlantic Ocean fisheries? • Approximately 1 billion people rely on fish as primary source of protein • Fish account for 1/5 of protein in human diet • Increased demand = unemployment for small scale fishermen (around 10 million worldwide) • Over-fishing sabotages the stability of marine environments, reduces ocean's ability to: • Produce seafood • Resist diseases • Filter pollutants • Rebound from stresses such as climate change Source: telegraph.co.uk; wri.org

9. Our Complex System of Teams • The current complex problem demands an international task force of teams! Environmental Scientists at GMU investigating the air and water ecology of the Atlantic Ocean International Strategic Management Team In France (GEM) transforming science into viable solutions Social Scientists at GMU investigating attitude and behavior change The Problem: Depletion of Atlantic Ocean Fish Stocks

10. Environmental Science Team Task • Uncover the key environmental factors and fishing practices that are causing the Atlantic Fishery problem • Ecosystem Basics • What are the necessary components to a balanced ocean ecosystem? • Predator/prey relationships, food sources, life cycles • Climate Change/ Marine Pollution • What are the impactful trends in ocean temperature and cleanliness? • What are the biggest contributors to these changes? • Fishery Activity • How have fishing practices changed over time to threaten the stability of the fish population? • What sort of regulations are in the fishing industry?

11. Social Science Team 1 Task- Attitude Change • Identify attitudes toward a specific behavior that need to be changed and strategies to change them • Which attitudes are most relevant? • Which common attitudes toward environmental issues are most important to understand in the Atlantic Ocean fisheries problem? Hint: You may need to talk to the Environmental Science students to identify the attitude(s)! • Determine the best approach to enact attitude change • Have similar attitudes been changed in the past? If so, how? • Identify subjective norms (perceived social pressure) to engage or not engage in a behavior and strategies to change them. • How do the French/Americans view the Atlantic Ocean fishery problem? Do they even know there is a problem?

12. Social Science Team 2 Task- Behavior Change • Identify perceived behavioral control and strategies to increase control beliefs • Which behaviors are most relevant ? • Which human behaviors are most important to understand in the Atlantic Ocean fishery problem? Do individuals believe that they have control over these behaviors? Hint: You may need to talk to the Environmental Science students to identify relevant behavior(s)! • Determine the best approach to increase control beliefs • How have perceptions of behavioral control been changed in the past? • What are the best strategies to enact change? • Identify behavioral intentions, and generate strategies to influence these. • Intentions are likely to influence actual behavior • Which intentions will result in desired behaviors that will benefit the Atlantic Ocean fisheries?

13. Strategic Management Team Task • What business practices need to be changed in order to save currently fished species of the Atlantic Ocean? • What business practices can realistically be changed? • What corporate/consumer incentives related to the environment are effective/efficient business practices?

14. Virtual Communication Tools • Project will require coordination across individuals and teams in various geographic locations • Collaboration on group documents/presentations • Real time meetings to brainstorm/provide feedback • Email chains within individual teams; across all teams • You will be using WebEx, an interactive video conferencing and collaboration tool • Videoconferencing capabilities (like Skype) • Shared documents/annotation abilities • Shared desktops– every sees the same computer screen

15. First Taskforce Meeting • Researchers will contact you to coordinate contact info sharing with your team • Each team must agree on a time for the first meeting next week (10/3-10-9) • Due to time zone difference, schedule between 7-9am • All team members must be present! • Meetings will be on WebEx • Researcher will go over basics of technology and team/project details at this time

16. Goal: Develop Innovative and Effective Plan of Action The Winning Plan will be: • Useful • In improving Atlantic Ocean fisheries • Short-term and long-term • Novel • Provides a new and unique perspective on improving fisheries • Effective & Comprehensive • Details the specific consumer and corporate behaviors that are necessary to change • Details how to change these behaviors • Predicts the difficulty involved in changing behaviors • Forecasts impact of changing these behaviors

17. Survey Tasks • Our research team is interesting in learning how global task force teams communicate and work with each other • Part of the project will involve you filling out online survey measures using two different websites • C-IKNOW • Qualtrics • Link sent out each Monday to complete

18. Pictures • You can choose to provide a picture that to the research team. • Pictures valuable for social network analysis • Social network analysis – the study of the complex relations between members of social systems; involves mapping social relations. • Nodes (also called actors) – represent people, organizations, concepts, etc. • Ties (also called edges) – represent relations between nodes • If you choose not to consent to have your data used, your picture will also not be used.

19. The Resulting Data and Sociograms • Researchers will be able in infer many different types of relationships based on the various ties measured in the survey • Sociograms can be constructed to represent the social network

20. Survey Tasks • Presentation of these data on team processes near end of term • Needed for your final papers • You may opt out of having your data used for our research but you will have to complete all the surveys for the group project • Your instructor will not know if you have given permission to use your data

21. Questions? • My contact info: • Sam Holland, shollan7@gmu.edu • Office Hours: Thursday 10:30-11:30am, Robinson B 215E