Acquire the Preferred Position in a Team

In a team of collectivism, the team performance or the team interest is emphasized. Many individuals may find that the team interest is not always consistent with their own. Assigning positions to team members is one such scenario. An individual may be assigned to a position that is not preferred. Is there any policy for an individual to apply in order to get the preferred position? Role-Based Collaboration (RBC) is a methodology that advocates collectivism. The Environments - Classes, Agents, Roles, Groups, and Objects (E-CARGO) is a good tool to investigate this issue. The contributions of this work include: 1) a data analysis method for a person to pursue the preferred position (role) in a team based on the E-CARGO model and Group Role Assignment (GRA) algorithm; 2) a set of experiments for the proposed methods; and 3) the confirmation of a list of common sense principles with the support of experiments.