Additional Contributions:We thank the following individuals for their leadership and support: Patsy Cho, RN (advanced practice nurse), Diane Beckford, RN (team leader), FlorenceWong, RN (advanced practice nurse), Ordia Kelly, RN (team leader), Andrew E. Simor, MD (Division Head, Infectious Diseases) and Steven Shadowitz (Division Head, General Internal Medicine). We also thank Alex Kiss, PhD, f...

Local health department directors' intent on getting their organizations ready for accreditation must embrace the blurring of leader/follower lines and create an accreditation readiness team fueled not by traditional leader or follower roles but by teamship.

We address the problem of controlling a team of robots subject to constraints on relative positions. We adopt the general framework of leader-follower control in [1], [2] in which a network of controllers is used to control the position and orientation of the team and its shape. We propose two improvements to this scheme. First, we introduce cooperative leader-following where the motion of a ro...

Decision-making in teams can be accomplished by including varying levels of team member opinion. This study considers two styles of group decision-making, consensus building and single leader decision-making with input from the team, in structured design selection tasks. The role of decision-making style in the speed of decision-making, team member satisfaction, and decision quality are examine...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this preliminary study was to evaluate the perceptions of internationally deployed Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) personnel regarding the psychosocial support needs of these teams. METHODS The DMAT questionnaire was sent to 34 members of Australian medical teams involved in deployments to the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami and the 2006 Java earthquake. Twenty...

Employees' identifications entail a valuable asset for modern organizations and identification research has stressed the necessity to distinguish identifications according to their focus (i.e., organizational, team, or leader identification). Interestingly, transformational leadership (TFL) has been proposed to unfold its effects through transforming followers' identifications and could thus be...