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Building the Team
Creating and managing effective teams directly impacts an organization's ability to achieve its goals. But more importantly, building and managing a team requires skills to nurture individual talents and harmonize those talents into a cohesive whole. Drawing on his extensive military background, Kenric Brooks extends the army's team-building model to civilian applications. He lays out the stages of building an effective and productive team, including the critical elements of building trust, establishing lines of communication, and creating value--page 4 of cover.
Teams
This is your toolkit. A major portion of this book provides 14 Business Problem-Solving Tools - from flow charting to spider diagrams; 8 Team Assessment Instruments - from the team readiness questionnaire to post-project team evaluation; and 7 Team Effectiveness Interventions - from the communication map to meeting planning worksheets. This book reveals how to select, design, and implement each type of team. You'll harness the power and understand the capabilities of problem-solving teams, task forces, cross-functional teams, and self-directed work teams. Be the manager who knows team planning. With Teams, you can successfully implement the right team for the right job.
ASD Technical Report
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Organizational Behavior
People, processes, and technology. These are the three major drivers of business achievement. The best leaders inherently understand that great companies start with great people. This is as true now as it was during the beginning of the industrial revolution, and understanding and staying current on the latest organizational behavior research and best practices paves the way for managerial success. In this updated edition of Organizational Behavior, theory, new research and real-world case studies are combined in an engaging manner to blend together the critical concepts and skills needed to successfully manage others and build a strong organization across all levels of a company. Featuring an in-depth view of the process and practice of managing individuals, teams, and entire organizations, the text provides a solid foundation for students and future managers.
Personality and Organizations
Personality has always been a predictor of performance. This book of original chapters is designed to fulfill a need for a contemporary treatment of human personality in work organizations. Bringing together top scholars in the field, this book provides a comprehensive study of the role of personality in organizational life. Utilizing a personality perspective, scholars review the role of personality in groups, job satisfaction, leadership, stress, motivation, organizational climate and culture, and vocational interests. In addition, the book looks at more classical topics in personality at work, including the measurement of personality, personality-performance linkages, faking, and person-o...
Foundations and Theoretical Perspectives of Distributed Team Cognition
The background and interwoven streams of team cognition and distributed cognition fermenting together has wielded new nuances of exploration, which continue to be relevant for a theoretical understanding of team phenomena. Foundations and Theoretical Perspectives of Distributed Teams Cognition looks at fundamentals, theoretical concepts, and how theory informs perspectives of thinking for distributed team cognition. The chapters yield a broad understanding of the nature of diverse thinking and insights into technologies, foundations, and theoretical perspectives of distributed team cognition. Features Generates historical patterns and significance that compose developmental trajectories Explains multiple perspectives that incorporate an interdisciplinary understanding that specifies diverse theories Identifies and develops particular challenges resident within team simulation studies and then illustrates research frameworks Highlights and reviews how team simulations are used to produce dynamic experimental results Investigates and studies research variables within distributed team cognition
Staffing Organizations
Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory, the new third edition of a classic in the field, shows how organizations of all sizes can use effective staffing procedures as a source of sustained competitive advantage. Practically, the book shows how to choose, develop, and administer effective staffing procedures, including condu
