Team Adaptation: Realizing Team Synergy
Understanding Adaptability: A Prerequisite for Effective Performance within Complex Environments
ISBN: 978-0-76231-248-1, eISBN: 978-1-84950-371-6
Publication date: 10 April 2006
Abstract
As operational environments become increasingly fluid, organizations are turning to teams as a proven performance arrangement to structure complex work. Teams are ubiquitous in modern organizations because they can be used to create synergies, streamline workflow, deliver innovative services, satisfy incumbent needs, maximize the benefits of technology connecting distributed employees, and seize market opportunities in a global village. Teams are also increasingly used because coordinating the “…activities of individuals in large organizations is like building a sand castle using single grains of sand” (West, Borrill, & Unsworth, 1998, p. 6).
Citation
Stagl, K.C., Shawn Burke, C., Salas, E. and Pierce, L. (2006), "Team Adaptation: Realizing Team Synergy", Shawn Burke, C., Pierce, L.G. and Salas, E. (Ed.) Understanding Adaptability: A Prerequisite for Effective Performance within Complex Environments (Advances in Human Performance and Cognitive Engineering Research, Vol. 6), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 117-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3601(05)06004-2
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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