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Team role behaviour and task environment

Shi, Yuwei; Tang, H.K. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 12 (1997) 2, pp. 85-94

Based on Belbin’s model of management team role behaviour and the theories on organizational environment, proposes that managers’ team role preferences are influenced by the immediate social context, that is, the organizational task environment. Analysing the task environments of five...

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Evaluation of team‐based management: a case study

Whitfield, J. Michael; Anthony, William P.; Michele … - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 8 (1995) 2, pp. 17-28

Team‐based management systems appear to be a possible avenue for increasing the productivity and effectiveness of organizations. However, there are concerns regarding their true purposes and effects within organizations. There is presently a dearth of literature evaluating the effectiveness of...

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Factors favoring knowledge management in work teams

Zárraga, Celia; Manuel García‐Falcón, Juan - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 7 (2003) 2, pp. 81-96

Knowledge management is an activity that has generated great interest in the business world recently. We conceive this activity as the process through which organizational knowledge is created from the individual knowledge of the members of the firm. A variety of contributions on the topic have...

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New Developments in Team Building

Gustafson, Kim; Kleiner, Brian H. - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 26 (1994) 9, pp. 17-22

Work teams are viewed by today′s businesses as a new frontier to be explored. The effect that teams can have has been demonstrated by the tremendous quality improvement of the post‐World War II Japanese products. Japan has set the example for the development of work teams throughout the...

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Team interdependence and turnover: evidence from the NFL

L. Davis, Justin; Fodor, Andy; E. Pfahl, Michael; … - In: American Journal of Business 29 (2014) 3/4, pp. 276-292

interdependence on performance in work teams. Based on pervious research, the authors contend that turnover will have a negative … the high/low task interdependence of the work team. Findings – Findings suggest a negative impact of turnover on … turnover is enhanced by the task interdependence within a team. Originality/value – This is one of the few studies that examine …

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A Field Study of Workplace Organization on Company Performance

Ortega, Raquel; Galve, Carmen - In: Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican … 4 (2006) 1, pp. 35-51

Using longitudinal data over a 132‐month period collected from 500 employees of the Spanish subsidiary of the German BSHG Corporation, this paper builds upon the growing research on high‐performance work systems (HPWS) to provide a model to predict outcomes of work teams on manufacturing...

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Developing self‐directed work teams

Clifford, Gavin P.; Sohal, Amrik S. - In: Management Decision 36 (1998) 2, pp. 77-84

Over the past decade many manufacturing organisations around the world have been changing their structures from the traditional hierarchical pyramid structure to a flatter, more responsive and lean structure. Team work and employee participation have become the key tasks for managers in all...

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Creating winning information technology project teams in the public sector

Peled, Alon - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 6 (2000) 1/2, pp. 6-15

Can we import the high‐performance team theory developed in the private sector into the public sector in order to improve the success rates of information technology (IT) projects? This article proposes that public organizations can create effective workgroups (weaker than the private...

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The parallel growth of team practices and the Center for the Study of Work Teams

Beyerlein, Michael M. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 7 (2001) 5/6, pp. 93-99

In the past dozen years, significant changes have occurred in the practice and research around work teams. Some of those changes have been captured, spread, or created by the Center for the Study of Work Teams at the University of North Texas. As practices have evolved, the Center has grown to...

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Planning to use work teams effectively

Trent, Robert J. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 9 (2003) 3/4, pp. 50-58

Few studies have definitively established a clear connection between teaming and higher performance, and even fewer have quantitatively assessed the impact of teaming on corporate performance. If using work teams is not a guarantee of greater effectiveness, then the challenge becomes one of...

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