This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in management teams on their business performance. As part of their curriculum, undergraduate students in business studies start up a team venture. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students, conditional on their gender, randomly to teams. We find that management teams wi...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine whether temporal scope—the extent to which teams have a past or expect to have a future together—affects face-to-face and computer-mediated teams ability to communicate effectively and make high quality decisions. Results indicated that media differences existed for teams lacking a history, with face-to-face teams exhibiting higher openness/trust...

PURPOSE This article describes the progress of our study to examine the advantages and costs of using self-managed nurse aide teams in nursing homes, steps that are being taken to implement such teams, and management strategies being used to manage the teams. DESIGN AND METHODS A quasi-experimental design is underway where certified nurse aide (CNA) teams are being established in five nursing...

This paper presents a controlled experiment conducted with senior software engineering students that demonstrates the utility of forming teams based on R. Meredith Belbin’s set of team roles. The overall research effort focuses on the general utility of Belbin’s roles in improving the effectiveness of teams, which can be view in two ways: performance and team viability. Performance effectivenes...

Introduction: Health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, strain health systems and emergency response mechanisms. Identifying critical points during cycle where workforce operational capacity can be improved help break protracted nature of responses. Global workforce, or alert teams multidisciplinary Public Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) Emergency Medical (EMTs), play roles in to public eme...

In this paper we investigate the effects that team size has on geographically distributed teams within a large, multi-national manufacturing organization. Survey responses from 109 members of distributed teams indicate that compared to members of larger teams, members of smaller teams participated more actively on their team, were more committed to their team, were more aware of the goals of th...

The importance of teamwork on patient safety in healthcare has been well established. However, the theory and research of healthcare teams are seriously lacking in clinical application. While conventional team theory assumes that teams are stable and leadership is constant, a growing body of evidence indicates that most healthcare teams are unstable and lack constant leadership. For healthcare ...

We examine bidding behaviour of individuals and teams in an experimental auction resembling UMTS-license auctions. Even though in reality teams were largely involved in those auctions, experimental studies on bidding in auctions have so far relied on individual bidders. Our results show that teams stay on average longer in an (ascending sealed-bid English) auction and pay significantly higher p...

As the nature of work in today's organizations becomes more complex, dynamic, and global, there has been an increasing emphasis on far-flung, distributed, virtual teams as organizing units of work. Despite their growing prevalence, relatively little is known about this new form of work unit. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical framework to focus research toward understanding v...