Abstract
The effects of communication networks may change with the amount of information with which the group must deal. To test this hypothesis, 2 kinds of tasks which had identical qualities but had different amounts of information were used. Two levels of networks, i. e. wheel and circle, and two levels of amounts of information, i. e. 6-symbols Leavitt task as a little-information, and 11-symbols one as a much-information were combined as experimental conditions, and under each condition 15 trials were run. The main results were as follows: as to time required for problem solution, the wheel were faster than the circle under little-information condition, but under much-information condition the circle were faster than the wheel.
It was suggested that the effects of communication networks change with the levels on the sole dimension of amount of information even the qualities of tasks were identical.
As to job-satisfaction, a main effect was found in the condition of network and within network position through the different levels of information.
