Editor: M. Mumford Departing from the functional leadership model, we propose a team leadership training model as a way to improve the performance of leadership functions and foster team effectiveness. Based on a longitudinal quasi-experimental study involving ninety 6-person teams, 45 trained leaderswere compared to 45 untrained leaders at two points in time: before the intervention group was ...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to apply J. Richard Hackman's framework on team effectiveness to academic medical library settings. METHODS The study uses a qualitative, multiple case study design, employing interviews and focus groups to examine team effectiveness in three academic medical libraries. Another site was selected as a pilot to validate the research design, field proced...

Overhead work is a main risk factor for upper limb work-related musculoskeletal disorders. In this paper, the research team evaluated effectiveness of passive exoskeleton(PE) with mechanical arm linked to exoskeleton body as an assistive device overhead work. Ten male volunteers participated in by effectuating repetitive lifting tasks using each three payloads: (1kg, 3kg, and 6kg) with/without ...

BACKGROUND Maintaining a sense of self-care while providing patient centered care, can be difficult for practitioners in palliative medicine. We aimed to pilot an "on the job" mindfulness and compassion-oriented meditation training for interdisciplinary teams designed to reduce distress, foster resilience and strengthen a prosocial motivation in the clinical encounter. METHODS Our objective w...

Recent studies on virtual teams reveal that team virtuality may be considered from different levels which have a considerable impact on team processes and management. However, as a recent concept introduced to virtual team literature, virtuality and its effects on team effectiveness are still under studied. The purpose of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to define the concept of ...

Globally Distributed Teams are being increasingly used by organizations to carry out knowledge intensive work and are often engaged in the development of modular products and services. While modularity is always treated as a given property of products and services, the findings of our qualitative research conducted in a GDT in charge of developing a new software product suggest that team member...