Types of people who collaborate
I have been trying to understand the different types of people who collaborate. Interesting enough, from my professional work in setting up collaboration systems, I can see that there are 1) some people who are extremely active collaborating for a short period of time and disappear “forever”, 2) there are another kind that are somewhat active and contributes just a little and 3) there are the ones who always contribute and collaborate.
Using the above three kinds of people I would like to propose that for 1) they are the people who are faced with external pressures / work requirement forcing conformity. They are somewhat forced to collaborate and since the boss says so and the performance review is at stake, therefore better “wake up” and get cracking (collaborating and contributing). Once the pressure and work requirement is gone, then contribution stops.
2) There people are uncertain about the whole idea of collaboration. They see successful peers climbing up the corporate ladder through sharing innovative ideas and producing good work on collaboration but not sure where to start or what to say. They contribute aliittle once in a while and are trying to mimic successful peers.
3) These people share and collaborate heaps. They do it as they are professional and have shared values with others in the network. Its simple, they believe in it, knows how it works and are willing to share. They are the “champions” of the system.
Jo said,
Interesting. I’ve never seen a researched taxonomy. I wonder if habits remain constant across domains? Good student project here. I’ll point a psych student from Brisbane over here.
Sean Lew said,
When I was writing this post, I could see some areas where it will not apply across domains. I believe (but not sure) that culture, time and industries is likely to affect the habits.
For example, in some cultures, employees work extremely hard and they are faced with external pressures / work requirement forcing them to conform. However, since they are so hardworking the period of conformity might be so long it seems like they have shared values (point 3) but in reality, they might not.
This is just a top of my head idea and I haven’t done much research specifically into my point above.
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