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The Concise Adair on Teambuilding and Motivation » Read Now
by John Eric Adair, Neil Thomas. 120 pgs.

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Packed with valuble insights and advice, this book presents John Adair's classic theory on Team, Task and Individual.
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High Performance Teams: How to Make Them Work » Read Now
by Marc Hanlan. 300 pgs.

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A comprehensive guide to creating and managing "high-performance" teams--and achieving breakthrough business results.
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Groups, Teams, and Social Interaction: Theories and Applications » Read Now
by A. Paul Hare. 178 pgs.

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An examination of Hare's findings about groups, teams, and social interaction, this book shows how these findings can be placed in the context of several theories, and discusses some applications that can be constructed for the analysis of various kinds of social situations. Part I brings together...
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An examination of Hare's findings about groups, teams, and social interaction, this book shows how these findings can be placed in the context of several theories, and discusses some applications that can be constructed for the analysis of various kinds of social situations. Part I brings together the literature on small workgroups from laboratory studies by social psychologists and practitioners in organizational development. Part II presents four theories of social interaction with examples of applications: functional, dramaturgical, exchange, and SYMLOG. The final chapter brings together features of these theories in a category system for the observation of groups.
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Team Performance Assessment and Measurement: Theory, Methods, and Applications » Read Now
by Michael T. Brannick, Eduardo Salas, Carolyn Prince. 372 pgs.

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...comprehensive theory of teams, teamwork components and their measures...to provide feedback to teams for developing teamwork skills. Of course, the formats...example, a...
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Groups at Work: Theory and Research » Read Now
by Marlene E. Turner. 554 pgs.

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This book has two purposes. First, it is fundamentally about groups at work, both as they attempt to accomplish their goals and as they operate in organizational settings. Second, it draws together group researchers from social psychological and organizational studies. Each chapter focuses on a...
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This book has two purposes. First, it is fundamentally about groups at work, both as they attempt to accomplish their goals and as they operate in organizational settings. Second, it draws together group researchers from social psychological and organizational studies. Each chapter focuses on a central issue regarding groups as they work and examines that issue by drawing from both social psychological and organizational research. Thus, this book centers on the convergence and divergence of these two fields.
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Leading Groups in Stressful Times: Teams, Work Units, and Task Forces » Read Now
by Joseph A. Olmstead. 261 pgs.

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In most organizations today, the greatest stress afflicts those working in groups: teams, task forces, and other units with special goals and purposes. Customary manners of management style and leadership largely fail to alleviate this stress. Olmstead offers a conceptual framework and draws upon...
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In most organizations today, the greatest stress afflicts those working in groups: teams, task forces, and other units with special goals and purposes. Customary manners of management style and leadership largely fail to alleviate this stress. Olmstead offers a conceptual framework and draws upon his own experiences--supported by the similar experiences of others who have worked in most types of organizations under various stressful conditions--to show how.
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The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools: Best of the Annuals » Read Now
by Elaine Biech. 424 pgs.

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Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on the Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of...
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Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on the Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in the Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from thirty-five years of Annuals volumes. Open the pages of The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools and you will find: A Stellar Panel of Contributors including Julie O'Mara, Patrick Doyle, Laurence C. Porter, Robert C. Preziosi, Anthony J. Reilly, John E. Jones, Leonard D. Goodstein, and Karen Vander Linde A Toolbox Loaded with activities, surveys, and information that you can put in place to build high-performing teams A Complete Team-Building Kit that includes a model for determining a team's strengths and weaknesses"I cut my training teeth on The Pfeiffer Annuals, and I've been a faithful advocate of these peerless guides ever since the first one. I'm just beside myself with glee to have a collection of the 'classic team-building tools' all in one place! Elaine Biech has done a masterful job of bringing together the all-time favorites and organizing them into a practical model. You've just got to have this book on your shelf, within easy reach. Buy it now! I know you're going to use it often."--James M. Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart, chairman emeritus, Tom Peters Company
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Managing Group Process » Read Now
by Marvin R. Gottlieb. 234 pgs.

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Aimed at front-line and senior managers faced with ongoing reorganization and an increasingly reluctant workforce, this book examines what it takes to facilitate problem solving, decision-making, and workforce retention and commitment.
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Teamwork and the Bottom Line: Groups Make a Difference » Read Now
by Ned Rosen. 228 pgs.

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...how to build and manage for teamwork will not find them in these...play games as members of teams. - worship in groups called...operations are performed by teams, not by...
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Why Teams Matter, in The McKinsey Quarterly » Read Now
by Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith. 25 pgs.

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...High-Performance Organization Effective teams, not abstract commitments to teamwork or empowerment, are the real...accountability -- not chemistry or teamwork or good...
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Teamwork at the Top, in The McKinsey Quarterly » Read Now
by Erika Herb, Keith Leslie, Colin Price. 12 pgs.

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...Teamwork at the top. by Erika Herb...whole company suffers. How can top teams fix themselves? The popular business...creates lasting change. Why it works Teamwork is a...
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Teamwork across Time and Space, in The McKinsey Quarterly » Read Now
by Richard Benson-Armer, Tsun-Yan Hsieh. 9 pgs.

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Teams in Organizations: Recent Research on Performance and Effectiveness, in Annual Review of Psychology » Read Now
by Richard A. Guzzo, Marcus W. Dickson. 32 pgs.

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...improve team effectiveness are in the works. Many of these are tied to a foundation of research on teamwork and effectiveness in military teams. Salas et al (1995) pointed...
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Leadership Processes in Virtual Teams and Organizations, in Journal of Leadership Studies » Read Now
by Judith G. Oakley. 15 pgs.

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...Leadership Processes in Virtual Teams and Organizations. by Judith G. Oakley Executive Summary Virtual teams face different challenges in creating effective...leadership...
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Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams, in Administrative Science Quarterly » Read Now
by James R. Barker. 30 pgs.

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...on self-managing teams tends toward organizational...attitudinal attributes of teamwork (Cordery, Mueller...employee training in teamwork, self-supervision...three...
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Health Care Teamwork: Interdisciplinary Practice and Teaching » Read Now
by Theresa J. K. Drinka, Phillip G. Clark. 204 pgs.

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While health care struggles with financing and quality care, educators, clinicians, administrators, and policy makers ignore an untapped resource. Well functioning interdisciplinary health care teams differ from current views of teams. An understanding of this hidden resource, as developed by Drinka...
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While health care struggles with financing and quality care, educators, clinicians, administrators, and policy makers ignore an untapped resource. Well functioning interdisciplinary health care teams differ from current views of teams. An understanding of this hidden resource, as developed by Drinka and Clark, can help America's health care system.
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