International public organizations, as the European Commission and the European Parliament, are under almost permanent political pressure to improve efficiency. While teamwork is considered to be a possible remedy, so far little research on effectiveness of multinational teams was undertaken in...

Incorporating team context into research and practice concerning team effectiveness in multinational organizations still remains an ongoing challenge. This book aims at drawing the attention of researchers and practitioners towards the importance of various "layers" of context on multinational...

In vielen Unternehmen und Industrien sind multiple Teammitgliedschaften (MTM) eher die Regel als die Ausnahme. Trotz der Verbreitung in der Unternehmenspraxis ist entsprechende Forschung in vielfacher Hinsicht limitiert. Um bestehende Literatur zu erweitern, betrachtet die vorliegende...

Human capital - the stock of knowledge and abilities possessed by employees - is consistently touted as an integral part of firm survival and success in dynamic environments. Managers must regularly decide how to allocate employees among competing tasks and projects to optimize the utilization...

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...

That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options seems to be nothing more than a statement of the obvious. But owners may find it hard to distinguish poor performance from bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and...

Teamwork in research has been on the rise and so has the size of R&D teams. This paper offers an explanation for increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R&D firms need to finish research projects as quickly as...

Team Tennis competitions produce aggregate scores for teams, and thus team rankings, based on head-to-head matchups of individual team members. Similar scoring rules can be used to rank any two groups that must be compared on the basis of paired elements. We explore such rules in terms of their...

A simple decision theoretic model shows the doping incentives for a member of a professional sports team. Depending on the detection probability and the punishment, a sportsman dopes not at all, at a medium or at the maximal level. The whole team has a higher incentive than an individual team...

Workers can contribute to total firm production directly through their own output or indirectly through their influence on the output of co-workers. Workers with positive productivity spillover effects cause individuals around them to perform better and increase overall team production. In...

Am Beispiel deutschsprachiger BWL-Professoren wird untersucht, ob Führungspersonen, konkret Dekane, Prodekane und Vorsitzende von wissenschaftlichen Kommissionen des VHB, in der operativen Arbeit, hier der Forschung gemessen über Veröffentlichungen und Zitationen bei Google Scholar,...

We model leadership selection, competition, and decision making in teams with heterogeneous membership composition. We show that if the choice of leadership in a team is imprecise or noisy - which may arguably be the case if appointment decisions are made by non-expert administrators - then it...

Development of a simulation model for optimization of a business process : focus on gap processes -- Development of a simulation model for optimization of business process : parameter estimation and practical applications -- Traffic flow burstiness and bottlenecks in entrances : modelling and...

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: The Why 7 Chapter 2: The Process--Don't Leave Home Without It 26 Chapter 3: Create Your Ensemble 39 Chapter 4: Let Go Of What You Know 57 Envision Chapter 5: It's Business Outcome Time 72 Chapter 6: Putting Divisions Out Of Business 87 Environment...

Foundations -- Fight-flight-freeze (the stress response) -- Universal human needs -- Feelings -- Faux feelings -- The self-connection process (SCP) -- Applying the foundations to conversation -- Listening and being listened to -- Making requests -- Preparing for a difficult conversation --...

Foreword / by Dan Hoffman, Founder and CEO of Circles -- Introduction: how will doing what anyone can do help me? -- No one does it alone, so why should you? -- The power of exploring, discovering, and expressing what you want -- Building your dream team and keeping squares out of your circle --...

Overview of EAST -- The event analysis of the systemic teamwork (EAST) method -- Applications of EAST -- EAST in air traffic control -- EAST in military command and control -- EAST in energy distribution operations -- EAST in a submarine control room -- EAST in railway maintenance -- EAST at...

Tavistock consultancy approaches, systemic practice, and the group analytic approach in work with staff, staff teams, and organizations -- Tavistock consultancy, systems centred, and group analytic perspectives on a community meeting on an acute psychiatric ward -- "How did you get here from...