| Team Effectiveness and Decision Making in Organizations Contributor(s): Guzzo, Richard A. (Author), Salas, Eduardo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555426417 ISBN-13: 9781555426415 Publisher: Pfeiffer OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: Teams have become a dynamic force in the world of business - cross-functional teams, quality circles, customer service teams, autonomous work groups, and even virtual, electronically linked teams. Vested with autonomy, information, and responsibility, today's teams don't just do - they decide. Although team activity often determines the success or failure of a project, a department, or even an organization, research on how teams really work has not kept pace with this exponential growth, until now. Written for researchers, educators, practitioners, and serious students of the team phenomenon, Team Effectiveness and Decision Making in Organizations provides the latest research perspective on teams: their nature, their function, their effectiveness, their decision-making processes, and their ability to change the face of organizational life. Using a variety of methodologies, twenty-two leading researchers from the fields of management and social, industrial, and organizational psychology examine team-based projects worldwide, bringing their expertise to bear on core issues from member selection to conflict management to measurement of productivity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Leadership - Business & Economics | Management - General - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship |
| Dewey: 658.402 |
| LCCN: 94041296 |
| Series: J-B Siop Frontiers |
| Physical Information: 1.29" H x 6.23" W x 9.28" (1.47 lbs) 443 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The seventh book in the Frontiers of Industrial and OrganizationalPsychology Series, sponsored by the Society for Industrial andOrganizational Psychology, a division of the American PsychologicalAssociation. Get the latest perspective on teams from leading professionals inmanagement and social, industrial, and organization psychology.You'll get the latest research perspective on teams and theirnature, function, effectiveness, decision-making process, and theirability to change the face of organizational life. This research-based resource: * Explores the ins and outs of staffing teams, emphasizing thenecessity for the right mix of skills, talents, job functions, andpersonalities * Examines diversity and its effect on the group process * Provides the latest findings on accurate measurement of teamperformance * Shows the results of using information technology to help teamsget work done and reshape the way individuals work together Plus, you'll get tested models and methods for improving teameffectiveness in any organizational context. Use it as a handbookon team dynamics and as a guide to a better understanding of theeffect of teams on organizational design. |