Team Performance Management: Volume 2 Issue 3

Training in project management: a powerful tool for improving individual and team performance

Robert Loo

Notes that the project management approach has enjoyed growing acceptance by a wide variety of businesses and organizations over the past 20 years or so. Emphasizes the usefulness…

Application of open systems theory in a manufacturing plant

David F. Elloy, Tom McCombs

Describes the application of open systems theory in a manufacturing plant. Outlines the theoretical foundation on which the intervention was based, as well as a description of the…

Managing effectively through teams

Philip R. Harris, Kevin G. Harris

Points out that, if high performance is to be sustained in metal‐industrial organizations, co‐operative action among personnel becomes essential ‐ the explosion of information…

Teamworking, or individual working in a team?

David Staniforth

Argues that teamworking is often portrayed as a panacea for a host of organizational problems. Reports that many modern managerial practices stress the importance of human…

The importance of conflict in work team effectiveness

Michael A. Esquivel, Brian H. Kleiner

States that the use of work teams is becoming more and more prominent in organizations today, and that these work teams are empowered to formulate and solve an organization’s…

Teams, teamwork and the independent consultant

Charles M. Russam

Discusses the increase in flexible employment with particular reference to independent management consultants. Suggests that such consultants miss out on the sense of belonging…