The Essentials of Teamworking

The team, rather than the individual, is increasingly seen as the building block of organizations and a key source of competitive advantage. Despite this, not enough is understood about how to build successful teams in modern organizations. The Essentials of Teamworking broadens this understanding by offering a selection of key chapters on teamwork from the International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working. This concise paperback edition reveals the complexity of teamwork and offers empirically based guidance on how teamwork can be effectively developed in modern organizations. Bringing together leading international scholars, The Essentials of Teamworking offers challenging perspectives on teamwork that will inform future research and practice. It is an invaluable resource for professionals, researchers and students alike.

About the Editors ix List of Contributors xiii Preface xv 1 Cooperation and Conflict: A Personal Perspective on the History of the Social Psychological Study of Conflict Resolution 1 Morton Deutsch 2 Trust, Identity, and Attachment: Promoting Individuals’ Cooperation in Groups 37 M. Audrey Korsgaard, Susan E. Brodt, and Harry J. Sapienza 3 A Contingency Theory of Task Conflict and Performance in Groups and Organizational Teams 55 Carsten K. W. De Dreu and Laurie R. Weingart 4 The Role of Cognition in Managing Conflict to Maximize Team Effectiveness: A Team Member Schema Similarity Approach 71 Joan R. Rentsch and Jacqueline A. Zelno 5 Skill Acquisition and the Development of a Team Mental Model: An Integrative Approach to Analysing Organizational Teams, Task, and Context 91 Janice Langan-Fox 6 Training for Cooperative Group Work 131 David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson 7 Team-based Organization: Creating an Environment for Team Success 149 Cheryl L. Harris and Michael M. Beyerlein 8 Team Decision Making in Organizations 173 Mary Ann Glynn and Pamela S. Barr 9 Social Loafing in Teams 191 Christel G. Rutte 10 Power in Groups and Organizations 209 Peter T. Coleman and Maxim Voronov 11 Managing the Risk of Learning: Psychological Safety in Work Teams 235 Amy C. Edmondson 12 Cooperation and Teamwork for Innovation 257 Michael A. West and Giles Hirst 13 When East and West Meet: Effective Teamwork across Cultures 281 Kwok Leung, Lin Lu, and Xiangfen Liang Index 303