Improving Team Work through Leadership Practices

Improving immunization rates in private pediatric practices through physician leadership.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a physician-led quality improvement initiative can improve immunization rates in participating private practices. DESIGN Surveys of private pediatric practices at 6-month intervals over an 18-month period. SETTING Ten private pediatric practices in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Va. PATIENTS Children aged 9 to 30 months attending the private practices. INTERV...

Improving medical leadership education through the Feagin leadership program

With little or no formal training in medical school or residency, physicians today are often unprepared for their leadership roles within large interdisciplinary healthcare teams.1,2 These leadership roles range from leading individual patients to larger interdisciplinary organizations. Physicians are expected to lead effectively based on the assumption that the skills that made them successful...

Team leadership

Despite the ubiquity of leadership influences on organizational team performance and the large literatures on leadership and team/group dynamics, we know surprisingly little about how leaders create and handle effective teams. In this article, we focus on leader–team dynamics through the lens of ‘‘functional leadership.’’ This approach essentially asserts that the leader’s main job is to do, or...

Improving Agent Team Performance through Helper Agents

In this paper, we consider the problem of environmental constraints on teams and examine how the constraints impact teamwork. We simulate a realistic problem for teams in the physical world by implementing a limit on the range of communication among agents. Using BlocksWorld for Teams from Delft University of Technology, we build teams of 3-4 agents with varying communication ranges and of diff...

Engaging employees through high-involvement work practices