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Analysis of team effectiveness in software development teams working on hardware and software environments using Belbin Self‐perception Inventory

Rajendran, Mazhil - In: Journal of Management Development 24 (2005) 8, pp. 738-753

Purpose – Aims to present a team effectiveness analysis of software development teams and one means of improving the effectiveness of software development teams in quite an innovative manner, namely, by forming teams based on who can work effectively together. Design/methodology/approach –...

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Diversify your teams and collaborate: because great minds don't think alike

Holtzman, Yair; Anderberg, Johan - In: Journal of Management Development 30 (2011) 1, pp. 75-92

Purpose – This article aims to provide business managers and executives with a framework of how to best utilize and implement teams in the workplace so as to maximize both internal and external diversified skill sets capabilities in team members. Design/methodology/approach – A combination...

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Vijay Govindarajan: innovation coach to the developed and developing world

Leavy, Brian - In: Strategy & Leadership 39 (2011) 5, pp. 4-12

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an interview by Strategy & Leadership with Professor Vijay Govindarajan, one of the world's foremost experts on innovation execution and the co‐author of The Other Side of Innovation (2010), which discusses innovating for emerging markets,...

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Building effective clinical teams in healthcare

Ezziane, Zoheir; Maruthappu, Mahiben; Gawn, Lynsey; … - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 26 (2012) 4, pp. 428-436

Purpose – This article aims to review teamwork and the creation of effective teams within healthcare. Design/methodology/approach – By combining research material found in management, psychology and health services research the article explores the drivers increasing the importance of...

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Team building and team working

Stewart, Bob; Powell, Sarah - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 10 (2004) 1/2, pp. 35-38

Presents an interview with Bob Stewart, an independent consultant specializing in courses and lectures on leadership, motivation, ethics, crisis management, negotiation, planning and tactics. Drawing on his military experience, covers such areas as the most significant attributes of an effective...

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Leadership in teams: managerial responses

Natale, Samuel M.; Sora, Sebastian A.; Kavalipurapu, … - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 10 (2004) 3/4, pp. 45-52

This paper explores the real issues in team effectiveness as they relate to leadership, assessment and policies in any business organization. Data are derived from a questionnaire that was given to 60 executives in different business organizations, creating a matrix of 1,020 answers which were...

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What would Machiavelli think? An overview of the leadership challenges in team‐based structures

Callanan, Gerard A. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 10 (2004) 3/4, pp. 77-83

The writings of Niccolò Machiavelli continue to resonate with today's business leaders. Current management literature still focuses on tactics to increase power as a means to ensure a leadership position. This attention to individual accomplishment and the building of power runs counter to what...

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Influence of team composition and task complexity on team performance

Higgs, Malcolm; Plewnia, Ulrich; Ploch, Jorg - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 11 (2005) 7/8, pp. 227-250

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a research study which is designed to explore the interrelationship between team diversity and task complexity in terms of its impact on performance. Design/methodology/approach – Team diversity was operationalised using the Belbin Team Role...

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A social capital explanation of the relationship between functional diversity and group performance

Randy Evans, W.; Carson, Charles M. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 11 (2005) 7/8, pp. 302-315

Purpose – Functional diversity research has resulted in equivocal findings for group performance suggesting the need for theoretical clarification. A review of previous functional diversity research indicates that high quality productive relationships are a key determinant in the performance...

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Managing complex team interventions

Barner, Robert - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 12 (2006) 1/2, pp. 44-54

professor in the areas of organizational change and teambuilding. Findings – The article concludes that team‐building failures … complexity of certain team‐building issues. Readers are introduced to six guidelines for managing complex team interventions …. Practical implications – This article is designed to help OD practitioners plan extremely complex and difficult team‐building …

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