- Necessary in order to control for differences in group communication across teams
- Played the iPad game "Spaceteam," where each player has their own control panel to fly a spaceship 
- Players must communicate with one another to successfully fly the spaceship

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- Baseline Communication Assessment
- Communication and Productivity
- Self-Report Measures

Measures (Identity Signaling & Workplace Productivity)

Greenaway K.A., Thai A.H., Haslam S.A., Murphy S.C. (2016). Spaces that signal identity improve workplace productivity. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 15(1), 35–43. https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000148

Spaces that Signal Identity Improve Workplace Productivity

Baseline Communication Assessment  (Identity Signaling & Workplace Productivity)

- Participants completed a second round of the Spaceship task
- Then, they did a letter-word-sentence task, which has been used in prior productivity research
- Each person received 16 letters and had to create individual words, then team members had to combine their words to create sentences
- Individual productivity: # of words produced by each team member
- Team productivity: total # of words in the group's sentences
- Individual contribution to the team: # of words each participant contributed to the team's sentences

Communication and Productivity (Identity Signaling & Workplace Productivity)

- 4 items to measure participants' identification with the room's previous occupants
- 4 items to measure the degree of competition felt with the room's previous occupants

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