Business students’ perspectives: What makes successful group performance?

Abstract

Purpose of this study was to identify factors contributing to the successful group performance from the perspective of business students. The in-depth interview was done followed by a survey derived forty-five items variables, after some tests 21 items variables removed due to low item remainder coefficient resulted in 24 items questionnaires. A total of 355 respondents participated during the survey. Exploratory factor analysis with principal factor extraction was performed and five contributing factors were extracted. Those factors are cohesiveness, inter-relationship, norms, diversity and appointed of team leader.