Making the Team, Global Edition
Description
For undergraduate or graduate management courses in Organization Behavior, Group Dynamics, or Teamwork; also appropriate for executives enrolled in degree and non-degree short courses on general management.
Gain inside insight to help team leaders and team members maximize their success in business.
Making the Team: A Guide for Managers
combines cutting-edge theory with the latest research and real-world applications in order to help team leaders and team members succeed in the business world.
Every chapter of this edition contains new information, new research, updated examples, and more.
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- PART I. THE BASICS OF TEAMWORK
- 1. Teams in Organizations: Facts and Myths
- 2. Performance and Productivity: Team Performance Criteria and Threats to Productivity
- 3. Rewarding Teamwork: Compensation and Performance Appraisals
- PART II. INTERNAL DYNAMICS
- 4. Designing the Team: Tasks, People, and Processes
- 5. Team Identity, Emotion, and Development
- 6. Sharpening the Team Mind: Communication and Collective Intelligence
- 7. Team Decision Making: Pitfalls and Solutions
- 8. Conflict in Teams: Leveraging Differences to Create Opportunity
- 9. Creativity: Mastering Strategies for High Performance
- PART III. EXTERNAL DYNAMICS
- 10. Networking, Social Capital, and Integrating across Teams
- 11. Leadership: Managing the Paradox
- 12. Interteam Relations: Competition and Cooperation
- 13. Teaming Across Distance and Culture
- APPENDIX 1. Managing Meetings: A Toolkit
- APPENDIX 2. Tips for Facilitators
- APPENDIX 3. A Guide for Creating Effective Study Groups
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APPENDIX 4. Example Items from Peer Evaluations and 360-Degree Performance Evaluations