Effective Teamwork

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Updated to reflect the latest research evidence, the third editionof Effective Teamwork provides business managers with thenecessary guidance and tools to build and maintain effectiveteamwork strategies. * A new edition of a bestselling book on teamwork from anacknowledged leader in the field * Offers a unique integration of rigorous research with practicalguidance to develop effective leadership teams * Features new chapters on virtual teams and top managementteams, plus contemporary themes of ethics and values * Utilizes research based on positive psychology techniques

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Michael A. West

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Arbeitspsychologie Organizational & Industrial Psychology Psychologie Psychologie i. d. Arbeitswelt Psychology

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"The book provides an in-depth examination of the range ofpositive and negative factors which can affect teamfunctioning. The ethics and values in team performance areconsidered and form a fundamental part within each section." (The British Psychological Society, 1 September2012) Imagine seven billion individuals on earth ... most of whomat some time experience life as members of teams, especially atwork but elsewhere as well ... and imagine the incalculablecombinations of people and situations that make for teams. Wherecan we possibly look for advice on how to get so many differentteams to be effective? Look first to Michael West's new book. It maintains alaser focus on what it really means for a team to be effective. Itembraces the complexity of things that matter - leadership,goals, support, technology to name just a few - and itconsistently delivers evidence-based advice on the surest ways ofmaking teamwork effective. --Rick Guzzo, Principal and WorldwidePartner, Mercer Human Resources Consulting Yet again, in the 4th edition of this deservedlypopular pocket book, Michael West has produced a masterly digest ofknowledge from a sprawling literature on this vitally importanttopic. Insights, examples and learning points emerge from firstpage to last, including, new to this edition, the very latestresearch on virtual and top management teams. It is unusual forbooks to successfully bridge the academic and practical divide, butthis one has equal appeal for scholars wanting the lowdown on thestate of the field, and for practicing managers trying to figureout what goes right and what goes wrong with teams in theirorganisations. You will not find a finer, more concise,authoritative and clearer assembly of available knowledge on teamsanywhere. --Nigel Nicholson, Professor ofOrganisational Behavior, London Business School, UK; author ofManaging the Human Animal and Family Wars This new edition of Michael West's book helps usunderstand what a team is and what we can do to improve teams'functioning. The book covers the most important factors impactingon teams' operation and outcomes. It is based on solidscientific knowledge and the author's extensive appliedexperience in the field. It provides readers with useful tools thatcan be implemented to help managers lead and develop their teams.Based on my own experience as director of a university service, Ican tell that these tools, and the knowledge on which they arebased, really work. --Vicente González-Romá, Director of theObservatory of Job Insertion and Occupational Guidance, Universityof Valencia, Spain; Editor of the European Journal of Work &Organizational Psychology Once again Michael has brought together the great management andleadership concepts of this decade to provide a practical, wellevidenced contribution to leading successful organisations. With aclear and insightful understanding of organisation realities,Michael's understanding of team work, staff engagement and heathand well being are combined to provide an extremely helpfulpractitioner and leadership guide supported by all the research,evidence and exercise material we've come to expect. In a worldwhere the focus of personal and organisational psychology is oftenremedial, this books engages us in using positive psychology toenhance the quality of life for staff through the achievement ofshared goals. --Dean Royles, Director, NHS Employers,UK
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