The need for collaboration and cooperation across a distance is becoming equal to that between a co-located team. This means that cooperative working must be supported by systems that allow natural social human communication and interaction. A goal of telecollaboration is to reproduce the effectiveness of co-located teamwork across a distributed team. Although many of today’s systems support co...

Teams are composed of individual members who collectively contribute to team success. As a result, contemporary team research tends to focus on how team overall properties (e.g., the average of team personality and behavior) affect team processes and effectiveness while overlooking the potential unique influences of specific members on team outcomes. Drawing on minority influence theory (Grant ...

OBJECTIVE We highlight some of the key discoveries and developments in the area of team performance over the past 50 years, especially as reflected in the pages of Human Factors. BACKGROUND Teams increasingly have become a way of life in many organizations, and research has kept up with the pace. METHOD We have characterized progress in the field in terms of eight discoveries and five chall...

This study compared the functional ability and perceived health status of stroke patients treated by a domiciliary rehabilitation team or by routine hospital-based services after discharge from hospital. Patients discharged from two acute and three rehabilitation hospitals in Nottingham were randomly allocated in three strata (Health Care of the Elderly, General Medical and Stroke Unit) to rece...

This dissertation is an attempt to develop and test a comprehensive model for global virtual team effectiveness based on development of partnership among diverse team members and the moderating role of collaborative technology and task interdependence. The model will be tested using filed survey methodology. The model is based on traditional I-P-O framework for understanding team effectiveness....

Effective team communication is essential for mission success in many complex operational environments. Whereas most previous research has focused primarily on the psychological factors that can cause breakdowns in team communication, this paper introduces a novel procedure designed to systematically evaluate the impact that a degraded communication transmission channel can have on team perform...

Contemporary competitive demands have forced many organizations to increase levels of flexibility and adaptability in their operations. A growing number of such organizations have explored the virtual environment as one means of achieving increased responsiveness. In particular, the use of virtual teams appears to be on the increase. However, the increased use of virtual teams has not been acco...