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Multi-stakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability : Beyond Deadlock and Conflict

Hemmati, Minu - 2012

Governments, business, international bodies and local groups are turning to multi-stakeholder processes to find practical ways forward. This book explains how MSPs can be organized to deliver their potential for successful resolution of complex issues and for sustainable development. It includes...

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Exploring the political underbelly of organizational learning

Field, Laurie - In: The Learning Organization 18 (2011) 4, pp. 272-287

Purpose – In an effort to better understand the political dimensions of organizational learning, this paper aims to examine learning processes in an organizational context – namely renegotiation of pay and performance management arrangements – where the interests of organizational members...

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Boundary breaking in a hospital

Kajamaa, Anu - In: The Learning Organization 18 (2011) 5, pp. 361-377

Purpose – The aim of this article is to examine whether the boundary between the separate worlds of evaluation and frontline work in a hospital can be overcome. The study provides an example of a rare, innovative creation process of an assessment tool in which the tool users and the tool...

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Virtual communicating, conflicts and performance in teams

de Jong, Remco; Schalk, René; Curşeu, Petru L. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 14 (2008) 7/8, pp. 364-380

‐team conflict and perceived team performance. The higher the level of team virtuality, the greater the positive impact of task … conflict on perceived team performance. In teams with a low level of virtuality task conflict has a negative impact on … perceived team performance, and in high virtual teams task conflict has a positive impact. In addition, process conflict has a …

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Conflict management and effectiveness in virtual teams

Pazos, Pilar - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 18 (2012) 7/8, pp. 401-417

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the role of goal‐oriented attitudes and behaviors as antecedents of conflict … management and the subsequent impact of conflict management on team outcomes in virtual teams. Of particular interest is the role … of “commitment to team goals” as a predictor of successful conflict management and the subsequent impact of conflict …

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Peer review: its time has come

Williams, Gary W.; Kleiner, Brian H. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 2 (1996) 4, pp. 21-26

traditional methods for resolving these conflicts. However, there is a non‐traditional conflict resolution method that is gaining …

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The management of multicultural group conflict

Appelbaum, Steven H.; Shapiro, Barbara; Elbaz, David - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 4 (1998) 5, pp. 211-234

new models of teamwork, conflict will accelerate from a variety of sources as multicultural groups emerge. This article … explores this problem and challenge by presenting contemporary research. The process model of conflict and the structural model … will be examined as well as the cognitive and interactional theories of conflict to consider congruence with organization …

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The self‐directed team

Appelbaum, Steven H.; Abdallah, Chahrazad; Shapiro, … - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 5 (1999) 2, pp. 60-77

brief definition and description of this kind of team, we will focus on conflict management as an important factor for their … success. Conflict and its mechanisms will first be developed, its consequences on group decision making will be studied at the … SDTs level, and a set of conflict management alternatives will finally be presented. …

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Integrated project teams’ performance in managing unexpected change events

Moore, David R.; Dainty, Andrew R.J. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 5 (1999) 7, pp. 212-222

Growing emphasis on meeting client needs and improving project performance within the construction industry has led to increasing use of fully integrated “design and build” (D&B) construction project teams. Advocates of the D&B system contend that integrating design and construction this way...

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Understanding the relationship between mental models, conflict and conflict asymmetry

Bergiel, Erich B.; Gainey, Thomas W.; Bergiel, Blaise J. - In: Team Performance Management 21 (2015) 7/8, pp. 320-338

models (SMMs) with multiple dimensions of conflict and conflict asymmetry. SMMs are viewed as an underlying mechanism of team …) teams. Findings – Results suggest that team SMMs reduce all dimensions of conflict and relationship conflict asymmetry …, while task SMMs increase all dimensions of conflict and relationship conflict asymmetry. Research limitations …

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