Addresses quality in schools, and looks specifically at teacher teams, and the problems facing them as they seek to … and use various interventions to “unfreeze” troubled or ineffectual teams.  …

Managing change is the crux of reducing the environmental impact of organisations. Teams are often used in large … communicating change can be different, is there still a rôle for change management through teams? The authors present case studies … in the field and compare it with teams used in these case study organizations. Describe how they choose priorities and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how participatory decision‐making processes in top management teams …

’ ability to resolve conflicts and the teams’ openness in communication. Team members’ and leaders’ perceptions did not differ …

distinguished the human species. More recently, empowerment has been used as a way of ensuring members of an organization have … from every level of the organization. Essential measures for successful empowerment include passing on information on all … collective leadership as part of a team. Empowerment will not work unless we address the human need for self‐control.  …

’s largest experiment in empowerment went awry, however. A state‐supported neo‐Taylorism with a “thinking tank” and a separate … “working tank,” evolved which represented little real empowerment. By the 1980s, self‐management had become an impotent … lessons for understanding and managing empowerment efforts today.  …