Team Organization: An Enduring Competitive Advantage (Wiley Series in Industrial and Organizational Psychology)

Team Organization: An Enduring Competitive Advantage (Wiley Series in Industrial and Organizational Psychology)

by Dean Tjosvold (Author)

Synopsis

Shows how working as a team up and down and across the organization promotes value and serves customers, creating and maintaining a competitive advantage in the intensely competitive global marketplace. Integrates research findings into a framework that will allow you and your associates to develop the priority, foresight and skills to work as a team, providing an ideal for productive joint work, steps to structure teams and suggestions on how to tailor teamwork principles to fit your circumstances. The first section describes the teamwork model (ideal), the theory and research that support the model and some popular alternative frameworks. It then discusses team potentials and pitfalls, successfully arguing that the team is vital to continuous improvement and innovation, and provides the ingredients for creating a successful team. Shows how the team organization model can be applied to the organization as a whole--and how crucial this integration is today.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 266
Edition: New edition
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 13 Apr 1992

ISBN 10: 0471934836
ISBN 13: 9780471934837

Author Bio
About the author: After graduating from Princeton University, Dean Tjosvold studied the social psychology of organizations for his PhD, which he obtained from the University of Minnesota in 1972. He is now a Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Before that he taught at Pennsylvania State University and was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore. He has published over 100 articles and several books on managing conflict, cooperation and competition, decision making, power, and other management issues.