background in the past 10 years, 13 fatal earthquakes have occurred in iran and led to death of 30,000 people whom most of them were killed in the earlier hours of the disaster. disaster medical assistance teams are groups of trained medical and non-medical personnel with various combinations that on the optimal conditions are deployed just within 8 hours of notification and are able to work se...

Firms devoted to research and development and innovative activities intensively use teams to carry out knowledge intensive work and increasingly ask their employees to be engaged in multiple teams (e.g., R&D project teams) simultaneously. The literature has extensively investigated the antecedents of single teams performance, but has largely overlooked the effects of multiple teammembership (MT...

In high-reliability work settings, most human work is performed by teams of workers who often engage in collaborative information behavior to solve complex problems. In this paper, we examine collaborative information behavior of trauma teams during trauma resuscitation, a team-dependent, fast-paced and information-laden process of evaluating critically injured patients early after injury. We i...

an alternative for decreasing risk for knowledge workers is effective & optimized work break.major performance criteria in r&d; based organization is successful projects. selection of opproporiate members can be a most effect on the projects achievement. but as the selection of r&d; special members lead to decrease of risk, repeatative participation of this people in the same project lead to kn...

Increasingly, organizational work is performed by distributed teams of interdependent knowledge workers. Such teams have many benefits, but geographic, organizational and social distance between members makes it difficult for team members to create the shared understandings and social structures necessary to be effective. But as yet, research and practitioner communities know little about the d...

satisfaction of health teams about the function of family physician in medical universities of northern provinces, iran    motlagh me [1] , nasrollahpour shirvani sd [2] , ashrafian amiri h [3] , kabir mj [4] , shabestani mounfared a [5] , mohoudi s [6] , nahvijoy a [7]     received: 10 feb, 2011 accepted: 2 may, 2011    abstract background & aims: health teams are experts and health workers in...

BACKGROUND Interdisciplinary team working could facilitate the efficient provision and coordination of increasingly diverse health services, thereby improving the quality of patient care. The purpose of this study was to describe knowledge of interdisciplinary team working among obstetricians and gynecologists in two teaching hospitals in South East Nigeria and to determine their attitude towar...

Virtual teams are developing rapidly in organisations of the new economy. As educators, we have a responsibility to ensure that our students are appropriately prepared for work in the virtual workspace, where teams may cross time, geographical, and cultural boundaries. In this article, the culturally sensitive theory of sociocultural learning is combined with GSS (Group Support Systems) to illu...

PURPOSE Recent studies have concluded that there is a lack of "patient-centered" care in nursing homes and subsequently a need for nursing home culture change. As a result, a variety of new, promising initiatives have been introduced, with most of these incorporating the use of "empowered" employees. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of empowered work teams--a work design sp...