Bøger i Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams serien

Complex collaboration refers to situations where working together effectively across boundaries is critical for complex projects and problems. This volume addresses such issues as unit of analysis, critical relationships, resource development, virtual teaming, and improvement processes.

The papers included in this volume identify some of the problems and some of the solutions to the kinds of problems that arise through working as virtual teams. They provide a framework for thinking about such problems and ideas that can form a foundation for advancing practice in the field.

Provides ideas, examples, and frameworks for improving our understanding of team development and the models we follow in fostering that development.

Drawing from the Center for Study of Work Teams conference, this volume covers a diversity of issues and variables that contribute to successful teaming. It also presents a variety of types of teams and remind us that different factors apply to different team requirements. It is useful for anyone who is involved with teaming.

Reflecting the move away from the team to the organization, the papers that make up this volume explain how most team failures seem to be caused by problems in the teams' larger environments, especially the lack of support systems when considering team needs.

Innovation has become one of the primary core competencies of effective organizations. This volume includes chapters that explore a variety of methods and settings that show how collaboration can be utilized to enable and enhance innovation. It also discusses the importance of collaborative environments to improve innovation.

Consists of papers that focus on 'collaborative capital' - broadly defined as the organizational assets that enable people to work together well. This volume is manifested in such outcomes as increased innovation and creativity, commitment and involvement, flexibility and adaptability, leveraging of knowledge, and enhanced learning.

Covers such topics as cross-functional teamwork, working in public and learning-in-action, organizing knowledge work systems and varieties of knowledge work experience.

Presents fresh approaches to understanding leadership. This book addresses: team citizenship behavior; self-leadership, self-managed teams and shared leadership; transformational leadership; organizational culture as expressed in the behavior of team members; and, decision making in top management teams.