
Team Effectiveness Of Software Professionals
Team Diversity, Emotional Competence and Personality Types
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 21. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-3-8465-0080-4 (ISBN)
Description
Software indutry has made a revolution in the past decades by surpassing all other business ventures by creating dependence for process as well as information. Software professionals need to work in teams and must have the right mix of skills that include technical, problem solving and interpersonal skills. Professionals of diverse groups tend to be more creative and perform better on problem solving tasks than homogeneous groups. Numerous organizations converted over to a team based approach and because of this; emotional intelligence is needed to aid the transition. Team members must be skilled in emotional intelligence in order to deal with interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts, raise communication and commitment to accomplish their goals. Personality types affected team interaction and led to maximize the potential of people. Analyzing the Team Effectiveness of five groups of software project teams with regard to Team Diversity, Emotional Intelligence and Personality Traits will enable to understand the dynamics within software project teams and provide insights as to how such teams can stretch their resources to attain greater potentials and effectiveness as strength
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
346 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8465-0080-4 (9783846500804)
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Persons
A.Velayudhan,Ph.D.,studied at University of Madras, Presently working as Associate Professor in Psychology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India. Field of study: Social Psychology and Human Resource Management. Seventeen years of research and teaching experience. Gopalakrishnan.J.P.,Ph.D studied at Bharathiar University, working as HR Manager.