Team Performance Management: Volume 2 Issue 1

Teamwork: the essence of the successful organization

Karen Twomey, Brian H. Kleiner

Defines the essential factors for the development of effective teams including elements such as members with the right mix of skills, clear goals, upper management support and…

Teamwork and team leadership

Raimo Nurmi

Explores some of the advantages and disadvantages of teamwork, suggesting that in present day companies teamwork is a must for the co‐ordination of departments. Examines four team…

Five skills to improve performance

Charles Margerison, Dick McCann

Outlines five communication skills suggested to the authors as being of major importance: enquiring, diagnosing, summarizing, proposing and directing. Presents the relationship of…

Why are common objectives so uncommon in top management teams?

Tanya Arroba, Felix Felix Wedgwood-Oppenheim

Clear and shared goals are seen as important to the effectiveness of teams. Yet evidence from the authors’ team development workshops for teams of directors and chief officers in…

Men and women at work

Charles Margerison, Dick McCann

Outlines the eight main types of work on offer in any organization and presents a “teamwork wheel” which incorporates these eight categories and the skill of “liking” which is…

Achieving environmental excellence through effective teamwork

Peter Anderson Strachan

For many forward‐looking organizations establishing and maintaining good environmental management and the ability to demonstrate such practice has been achieved through the…

Advantages and disadvantages of group decision‐ making approaches

Carolyn Brahm, Brian H. Kleiner

Explains the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches that are now being used in today’s society for group decision making. Groups are everywhere in our society, and…

Overcoming the problems of cultural differences to establish success for international management teams

Malcolm Higgs

Discusses the literature on cross‐cultural diversity and team building in a global context. Argues that diversity is to be valued, not seen as a problem. Outlines a framework for…