Team Performance Management: Volume 16 Issue 7/8

Obstacles to successful management of projects and decision and tips for coping with them

Ana Shetach

The purpose of the paper is to classify the full scope of hazards in the way to effective project‐ and decision‐management in teams, and to present team leaders with a practical…

Critical success factors for developmental team projects

Barbara Dexter

This paper aims to explore a leadership development intervention activity to solve an organisational problem and seeks to identify critical success factors for the design and…

Self‐managed teams in the auto components industry: Construction of a theoretical model

Celso Luis Alves Pais

The overall purpose of this paper is to explain theoretically the autonomy phenomenon of teams working within the auto manufacturing context and its implications for the technical…

The demographic antecedents and performance consequences of the social‐network structure in work teams

Kaisa Henttonen, Minna Janhonen, Jan‐Erik Johanson, Kaisu Puumalainen

Businesses are increasingly using teams as their fundamental organisational unit. This paper aims to explore the impact of demographic antecedents and the social‐network…

Feeling (and acting) like a fish out of water: Numerical minority status, gendered work and citizenship behavior in mixed gender work teams

Leonard Karakowsky, Sara Mann, Ken McBey

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the proportional representation of men and women in a group, along with the gender‐orientation of the group's task, can impact member…

Interactive and collaborative behaviour of software product‐development teams

Randhir Reghunath Pushpa, Mary Mathew

This paper aims to describe a study of interactive and collaborative behaviours of software product development teams across horizontal, geographical and value chain boundaries…

Attitudes towards factors influencing team performance: A multi‐rater approach aimed at establishing the relative importance of team learning behaviors in comparison with other predictors of team performance

Chantal M.J.H. Savelsbergh, Beatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden, Rob F. Poell

The purpose of this paper is to establish how teams view the relative importance of team learning behaviors in comparison with other predictors of team performance.

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