Teams That Work: Preparing Student Teams For The Workplace

Designing teams that work.

This paper describes the development of clinical improvement teams in a multi-disciplinary acute health care setting. The process included an information-gathering phase that enabled a match of team structure and leadership to staff skills and experience. It was found that an environment that supported collaborative practice and shared decision-making was critical to staff support of the teams ...

Virtual Teams and Human Work Interaction Design - Learning to Work in and Designing for Virtual Teams

The boundaries and work processes for how virtual teams interact are undergoing changes, from a tool and stand-alone application orientation, to the use of multiple generic platforms chosen and redesigned to the specific context. These are often at the same time designed both by professional software developers and the individual members of the virtual teams, rather than determined on a single ...

Self-directed Work Teams Challenges for Leading, Managing, and Performing in Self-directed Work Teams

Teams for Teams

We are developing a theory for human control of robot teams based on considering how control varies across different task allocations. Our current work focuses on domains such as foraging in which robots perform largely independent tasks. The present study addresses the interaction between automation and organization of human teams in controlling large robot teams performing an Urban Search and...

Stream12. Teams Once Again – Wellbeing in Teams and Temporality of Work in Teams Engineering Team Work I

The tensions between the individual and the collective in engineering work practices are profound. Engineers’ self-­‐perception as well as the consensus of the research community point to the fact that engineering work practices are essentially collective work practices ...