This paper examines the aspect of designing global virtual teams and the key factors that impact team design. Examines … how design impacts team performance. Proposes a conceptual model for designing such teams to deliver optimal performance … constraints can impact team design. Highlights the fact that performance of teams too is multi‐dimensional and design has to …

based on team climate scores. The TCI was administered twice to 84 and 63 self‐managed teams of management undergraduates …Several studies have reported on psychometric and factor‐analytic work related to the team climate inventory (TCI …), including its four scales and 13 subscales. This exploratory study reports on the first research to examine team typologies …

Argues that most so‐called teams only need meet for genuinely corporate purposes such as forming a strategic picture or … it. Notes the increasing emergence of temporary teams and growing need for facilitator skills. Argues that traditional … team meetings are often boring, frustrating and dysfunctional. Adversarial behavior, lack of respect for difference or …

Considers leading and managing in teams. As teams and teamworking continue to grow in popularity in many organizations …, sets out practical help and guidance in an area few managers/team leaders are trained in. Much of the work emanates from … research conducted in a variety of organizational settings, ranging from UK manufacturing to primary health‐care teams. Cites …

doing so, it introduces “inquisitiveness” as a key disposition that some team members use to assemble and integrate … different simulated employees working together in “ad hoc” teams to solve problems. Findings Results show that inquisitiveness … may work as an efficiency “driver” that, when present, economizes on the knowledge needed by team members to solve …

In this paper the impact of the top management team’s (TMT) cognitive and demographic characteristics on the firm …

Virtual teams are typically made up of geographically dispersed experts, supported by computer‐based communication … technologies. Though increasingly popular this is still a relatively unstudied organizational form. Virtual team membership is … typically based solely on needed expertise; the teams rarely have any history of interaction and their performance potential is …

In this article, the authors discuss the characteristics and dynamics of effective teams. They consider the factors … influencing interpersonal interactions within a team and consequently propose that there is a variety of strategies which may be … intervention to improve team effectiveness.  …

pitfalls. This article presents Chevron’s experiences in establishing interfunctional work teams, evaluates barriers, and … suggests steps for successful implementation of self‐directed process teams.  …