Team Performance Management: Volume 22 Issue 7/8

Mindful infrastructure as an enabler of innovation resilience behaviour in innovation teams

Peter R.A. Oeij, Steven Dhondt, Jeff Gaspersz

This paper aims to investigate the principles of high reliability organisations (HROs), present in safety and crisis teams, as applied to innovation teams. Safety and crisis teams…

Sociotechnical systems design: coordination of virtual teamwork in innovation

Gilbert Painter, Pamela Posey, Douglas Austrom, Ramkrishnan Tenkasi, Betty Barrett, Betsy Merck

This paper aims to report on a qualitative comparative case study of coordination in three ongoing research and development projects, each conducted by teams working virtually…

Humor and group atmosphere: Development of a short scale for evaluating affiliative and aggressive humor in groups

Petru Lucian Curseu, Oana Catalina Fodor

Given the importance of humor in interpersonal communication in groups and the influence of the positive group atmosphere on group effectiveness, this paper aims to provide…

Putting a band-aid on a wooden leg: A sociotechnical view on the success of decentralisation attempts to increase job autonomy

Lander Vermeerbergen, Geert Van Hootegem, Jos Benders

Decentralisation attempts that aim to increase job autonomy do not always succeed. This paper aims to study to what extent the tendency to maintain existing operational task…

Team learning, team performance and safe team climate in elder care nursing

Veronika Leicher, Regina H. Mulder

This study aims to determine whether elder care nurses engage in knowledge sharing and reflection within their teams and if these team-learning activities influence an elder care…

How staff experience teamwork challenges in a new organizational structure

Mette Sandoff, Kerstin Nilsson

This study aims to explore challenges arising from the development of teamwork in a new organizational structure, based on the experiences of the staff involved.