This book offers practical, evidence-based solutions to help professionals implement and support effective teamwork. Lantz, Ulber and Friedrich draw on their considerable professional experience to present common problems in team-based organizations, what empirical research tells us the causes are.
Autorentext
Annika Lantz is a professor of psychology at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Her main research interests are team development, leadership and innovation processes. She also works as a consultant for Fritz Change AB and has worked as a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice.
Daniela Ulber is a professor at HAW Hamburg University, Germany. Her research focuses on organizational development, management and coaching as well as systemic and solution-orientated consulting in organizations.
Peter Friedrich, Dr., is a senior consultant at Fritz Change AB, Sweden, with expertise in organizational development, action research and cross-cultural studies of innovation processes. He has an academic background in industrial engineering, and is a former researcher at the Swedish National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety and the Wiesbaden Business School.
Inhalt
Chapter 1. Why work in teams and for what are teams effective?
Chapter 2. The problem with problem-solving
Chapter 3. We have teams, but little teamwork
Chapter 4. Team composition: "We have a team, but team members do not benefit from each other"
Chapter 5. The team does not carry out the tasks in a coordinated manner
Chapter 6 The team does not cooperate adequately due to conflicts and a lack of a positive and amicable climate
Chapter 7. The problem with lack of adaptability
Chapter 8. The teams does not perform well because of a lack of good leadership
Chapter 9. Teamwork and team learning does not result in organizational learning
Chapter 10. Requirement specification of systematic team interventions
Chapter 11. Effective teams over time