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Action Learning via Teamwork |
By Charles Margerison; Action learning is a system for improving
both individual and organizational performance |
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Basics |
Introduces some of the basic concepts of team building, asking such
questions as 'what is a team?', and 'what is team building?';
explains some of the basic ideas behind improving the performance of
teams. |
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Belbin's Company Worker |
Belbin's Company Worker, The Self-Perception Inventory, and Their
Application to Software Engineering Teams. Thesis. This study uses a
team-based personality profiling tool, the Belbin Self-Perception
Inventory, to explore the characteristics offered by the Company
Worker, one of the team roles defined by Belbin. Pdf-file |
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Can
Multinational Groups be Effective? |
The Influence of Leadership and Corporate Culture. In this paper a
model focussing on how to build an effective multinational group (MNGs)
is presented. Pdf-file |
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Change communication in the context of self-directed work teams |
This research project collected data about team communication and
communication of organizational information within the workplace
during the change from traditional authoritarian, top-down
leadership to self-directed work teams in different areas of a
manufacturing plant. pdf |
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Group Dynamics |
Current group research, history of group research, group structures
etc. by Denelson R. Forsyth, Professor of Psychology and Sociology
at Virginia Commonwealth University |
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Living with a Self-Directed Work Team |
... and Why Self-Direction Works: A Review of Herzberg's Concepts;
by Peter Grazier |
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Managing Team Performance: |
Unrealistic vision or attainable reality? By Dick McCann & Richard
Aldersea; paper can be used to help teams in trouble and to fine
tune teams that are already performing well. It is based on a new
model of teamwork and an instrument which can measure team
performance. |
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Megatraps: The Team Killers |
This article provides a brief overview of the three team megatraps:
the strategic blunder, the collision of work cultures, and the
inability to transfer learning. Pdf-file 163 KB |
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Overcoming Objections to Team-Based Organization |
This article explains managements' and employees' objections and
gives answers to them. |
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Quotes on teams |
Nothing scientific, but if you need a quote about teams - there is a
great variety |
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Team Chemistry |
Some hints for project team effectiveness. Pdf-file |
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Team Dynamics |
At the example of the 1993 Dhaulagiri Expedition; by Bob Killip |
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Team Effectiveness |
Article about the factors that contribute towards an effective team |
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Team Learning |
By Dr Dick McCann; learning organizations, what is team learning,
nine essential team activities, valuing diversity, communicating,
learning review |
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Team Motivation |
How to keep the team motivated over the long haul; by Peter Grazier |
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Team Motivation II |
Factors That Influence Team Motivation |
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Team Roles |
Introduction into the concept of Belbin®team roles |
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Teaming with Strangers |
Success strategies for cross-functional teams; by Glenn Parker |
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The
Impact of Task- and Team-Generic Teamwork Skills Training on Team
Effectiveness |
This study examined the effects of training team members in three
task- and teamgeneric teamwork skills: planning and task
coordination, collaborative problem solving, and communication. Pdf-file.
2005 |
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The
State of Teams - A Research Report from CCL |
CCL's 2006 State of Teams Report provides a broad look at the
challenges, needs, and functioning of teams in today's
organizations. pdf. 2006 |
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Using Peer Assessments in Team Activities |
pdf-file |
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Weathering the Storms of Difficult Times With Team-Based
Organization and Self-Managed Teams |
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Work team performance over time: three case studies of South African
manufacturers |
In this paper,we report on three case studies of South African
manufacturing firms that made significant efforts to implement
shopfloor improvement teams. Our main hypotheses are: work team
engagement is positively associated with early implementation
credibility-building activities; both outcome-orientation and
substantive participation are positively associated with a rapid
rate of performance gains; and team institutionalization is
positively associated with sustaining performance gains. pdf-file
2002 |
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Creating Win-Win Solutions for Team Conflicts |
By redefining team members' aims and belief systems, conflicts can
be resolved in a way that works for everyone. The six-step process
described here can help teams find solutions that maximize mutual
benefits. |
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Cross-Cultural Process Conflict Management: |
Time Perceptions as Value Diversity in Multicultural Teams. Pdf-file |
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Effects of Intra-Group Conflict on Packaged Software Development
Team Performance |
Findings from this study indicate that a combination of the team’s
characteristics, teammember characteristics, and existing levels of
intra-group conflict accounts for nearly one-half of the variance
between the best and worst-performing teams. |
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Key
Concepts |
Slides discussing concepts such as positive and negative conflict,
stages in conflict, ways of dealing with conflict etc. pdf-file |
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Managing Conflict in Work Teams |
Conflict is a driving force of change that can result in improved
decision-making processes and progressive team development. However,
teams must learn to be confrontational without destroying the team
process. |
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Managing Conflicts within a Team of Writers |
Whenever a conflict occurs within a writing team, managers usually
have two options: conflict management or conflict resolution. |
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Managing Groups and Teams/Conflict |
Detailed paper from Wikibooks, including types, symptoms,
appropriate solutions, prevention strategies |
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Managing Work Team Conflict: Assessment and Preventative Strategies |
Although conflict is an inevitable aspect of team development,
conflict can provide the basis for constructive and beneficial
outcomes by identifying and managing conflict effectively. |
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Meridith Belbin Team Roles and Modes of Conflict Behaviour: |
A Study in Work Teams from the Basque Country Organizations. This
study is based in cultural profiles and modes of conflict behaviour,
and hypotheses that different Belbin Team Roles may correlate to
different modes of conflict behaviour, as well as different
motivation behaviour depending on the role. |
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Nine Ways Managers Can Help Resolve Conflicts Between Teams |
If some teams in your organizations are having difficulty with each
other, consider doing the following exercise to help them resolve
their conflict. Short paper with nine approaches. |
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Resolving Conflict in Work Teams |
As organizations continue to restructure to work teams, the need for
training in conflict resolution will grow. Conflict arises from
differences, and when individuals come together in teams, their
differences in terms of power, values, and attitudes contribute to
the creation of conflict. |
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Games and Activities ... |
... For building and training teams; types of teams, what are and
why to use games and activities, hot to use them to build and train
teams |
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Games and Team Building Activities |
A compilation of activities and games that are useful for
teambuilding, each with a brief description. |
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High and Low Performing Project Teams |
Uncovering and Exploring the Mobilization and Launch Phase of High
and Low Performing Project Teams. Pdf-file |
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Phases of the Team Building Effort |
Short description of several phases of the team building effort |
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Team Building Without Time Wasting |
Many of today’s leaders face a dilemma, as the need to build
effective teams is increasing, the available time to build these
teams is often decreasing. This parallel approach to teambuilding
has been shown to help leaders build teamwork without wasting time. |
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Team Startup |
A complete guide for newly formed teams - overview and free
downloadable e-book |
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Teambuilding: A Strategic Leader Imperative |
This paper focuses on teambuilding from a military perspective. It
will analyze the components of teambuilding and suggest
recommendations on how to improve teambuilding efforts to foster
effective strategic leadership. |
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The
Challenge of Creating Cross-Functional Teams |
In a time of massive reorganizations due to mergers, reengineering,
and enterprise resource planning systems (ERP), people need to be
able to build alliances and teams across departments and across
continents. This article provides a model for building these
cross-departmental teams. |
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Time Efficient Team Building |
Team building requires the knowledge of available tools to
accomplish the tasks at hand while working in time constraints of
school districts. This article reviews: a) effective team building
strategies, b) applies team building to develop new knowledge, and
c) makes use of total quality management tools to build teams in a
limited time frame. |
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What is Teambuilding Really? |
Are you more successful on your own or in a group? by Peter Grazier |
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