Understanding Teams

Linda L. Neider, Chester A. Schriesheim, Linda L. Neider, Chester A. Schriesheim

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN: 9781593112646, 9781593112653
• eBook ISBN: 9781607526629
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Mark Twain, the great American writer, once stated that synergy is the bonus achieved when things work together harmoniously. Organizations in the twenty-first century are driven by a need to achieve synergy for all of their various processes, and organizational structures such as teams have become one of the major ways to do so. Thus, the fourth volume of Research in Management is devoted to highlighting conceptual frameworks and research investigations which elucidate factors related to effective team processes and those which may, in fact, hinder effectiveness.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Understanding Teams
• Understanding Teams
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword: Research in Management: Understanding Teams
• 1: Capacity, Collaboration, and Commonality: A Framework for Understanding Team Learning
• 2: Personal and Social Functional Background Identity and Individual Performance as a Team Member: The Moderating Role of Identity Salience
• 3: Factors Contributing to Knowledge Team Performance
• 4: Leader-member Exchange at the Team Level: Leader-team Exchange
• 5: Functional Diversity and Conflict in Cross-functional Product Development Teams: Considering Representational Gaps and Task Characteristics
• 6: The Congruence Hypothesis of Intrateam Interdependence in Organizations: Some Recent Findings and Their Implications for Theory and Practice
• 7: Emotional Game Playing and Poor Team Norms: The Implications for Work Teams
• 8: Negotiation and Postnegotiation Performance in Teams: A Motivational Analysis
• 9: The Fragility of Group Potency: The Ups and Downs of Confidence during Group Formation
• 10: Leadership and Self-managing Teams: Leading a Team that Manages Itself
• About the Authors