Purpose This paper aims to test if team reflexivity is a countermeasure the detrimental effect of virtuality on performance improvement, in decision-making teams. Design/methodology/approach Study 1 regarded 210 individuals ( N = 44 teams) executing five tasks. 2 60 20 four was longitudinal, with no experimental manipulation. had an longitudinal design comprising two between-team manipulations:...

In his essay commemorating the famous Hawthorne studies, Harold Leavitt (1975) suggested that people and organizations would be “better off” if groups, not individuals, were the basic building blocks of organizations (Hackman, 1987). Since his prophetic essay, the use of groups and teams in organizations has greatly expanded. As the focus of organizations shifted toward quality, innovation, and...

PURPOSE We analyzed student reflection essays to evaluate the impact of an interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum on what students value and personally learn from their participation. METHODS After completing a 2-year IPE curriculum in the Health Mentors Program (HMP), while partnered with a mentor with chronic disease(s), 264 students from six health professions submitted personal refl...

Focused ethnography is an applied and pragmatic form of ethnography that explores a specific social phenomenon as it occurs in everyday life. Based on the literature a problem-focused research question is formulated before the data collection. The data generation process targets key informants and situations so that relevant results on the pre-defined topic can be obtained within a relatively s...

Multidisciplinary team-oriented research is an effective method for investigating systems spanning multiple knowledge areas. Building on cross-functional team strategies developed for highly competitive industries, experts from a variety of technical domains can be brought together in a team and focused toward a common set of goals. However, building and maintaining these teams is an art that c...