This article describes the development of the Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness. The authors used the teamwork literature to create potential items, which they tested using two surveys of college students (Ns = 2,777 and 1,157). The authors used exploratory factor analysis...

This study focuses on team members’ perceptions of organizational support as antecedents of team processes and potency. Potency is team members’ collective belief that the team can be effective. In a field study of 39 work teams in six organizations, we find a positive relationship between...

Instructors often incorporate self and peer evaluations when they use teamwork in their classes, which is common in management education. However, the process is often time consuming and frequently does not match well with guidance provided by the literature. This paper describes the development...

A significant body of research identifies a large number of team composition characteristics that affect the success of individuals and teams in cooperative learning and project-based team environments. Controlling these factors when assigning students to teams should result in improved learning...

Colleges of business must meet Assurance of Learning (AOL) requirements to gain or maintain AACSB accreditation under the new standards adopted April 8, 2013. Team skills are among the most important skills desired by recruiters, yet employers and scholars perceive that team skills are...

Purpose: This paper suggests why the theoretically positive relationship between task conflict and team performance has received mixed empirical support. Design/Methodology/Approach: We review the empirical literature on task conflict and offer explanations for empirical findings that contradict...