Team Performance Management: Volume 12 Issue 7/8

Top management team, international risk management factor and firm performance

William C. Auden, Joshua D. Shackman, Marina H. Onken

The paper seeks to address four key Top Management Team (TMT) demographic characteristics in their relationship with firm performance: age, functional background, educational…

Do you know your STUFF? Training collaborative modelers

Scott Mikel Millward

This research in the paper seeks to extend the findings of Jeffery et al. by describing and testing two communication processes for improving collaborative modeling and team…

Trust and cross‐cultural dissimilarities in corporate environment

Rajagopal, Ananya Rajagopal

The paper aims to show how Latin American corporate executives are faced with a serious problem, low trust and peer confidence. The factors of criticism in the workplace…

Using intranets to make virtual teams effective

D. Keith Denton

The purpose of this paper is to improve the chances of success of a virtual team.

A process for identifying the skills needed for operating in a self‐directed work team in a manufacturing setting

Thomas W. Kent

The paper sets out to show that more and more firms are employing employee involvement systems to enhance motivation, employee performance and organizational productivity…

Critical thinking in organizations

Sam Natale, Frederick Ricci

This paper aims to review the history of critical thinking as a seminal and foundational skill for small groups. The paper shows that much of the team research focuses on the…

The impact of ad hoc teams in the automobile industry

Juan A. Marín García, Manuela Pardo del Val, Tomás Bonavia Martin

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of training on ad hoc teams in an industrial setting.