Making the Team, Global Edition, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (13 April 2015) © 2016

  • Leigh L. Thompson Northwestern University
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For undergraduate or graduate management courses in Organization Behavior, Group Dynamics, or Teamwork; also appropriate for executives enrolled in degree and non-degree short courses on general management.
Gain inside insight to help team leaders and team members maximize their success in business.
Making the Team: A Guide for Managers combines cutting-edge theory with the latest research and real-world applications in order to help team leaders and team members succeed in the business world.
Every chapter of this edition contains new information, new research, updated examples, and more.

Table of contents

  1. 1. Teams in Organizations: Facts and Myths
  2. 2. Performance and Productivity: Team Performance Criteria and Threats to Productivity
  3. 3. Rewarding Teamwork: Compensation and Performance Appraisals
  4. 4. Designing the Team: Tasks, People, and Processes
  5. 5. Team Identity, Emotion, and Development
  6. 6. Sharpening the Team Mind: Communication and Collective Intelligence
  7. 7. Team Decision Making: Pitfalls and Solutions
  8. 8. Conflict in Teams: Leveraging Differences to Create Opportunity
  9. 9. Creativity: Mastering Strategies for High Performance
  10. 10. Networking, Social Capital, and Integrating across Teams
  11. 11. Leadership: Managing the Paradox
  12. 12. Interteam Relations: Competition and Cooperation
  13. 13. Teaming Across Distance and Culture

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