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Performance Management: Putting Research into Action
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Performance Management: Putting Research into Action

by James W. Smither
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
700 pages
18h 26m
English
Pfeiffer
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Task Complexity

Complex tasks are those on which the path to goal achievement is not immediately apparent or easily understood. Wood (1986) defined task complexity as involving three aspects: component complexity (signified by the number of acts and information cues involved in completing a task), coordinative complexity (indicated by the type and number of relationships among the acts and information cues), and dynamic complexity (reflecting the degree of changes in acts and information cues over time, as well as the relationships among them). Granted the need to devote time and mental effort to understanding complex tasks and mastering skills in order to competently complete them, Wood, Mento, and Locke (1987) investigated whether task ...
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