... Team cognition Team learning Technology‐mediated collaboration Learning Team working Advances in collaborative technologies (e.g. videoconferencing systems with shared whiteboards) have lead to the development of a global, socially‐networked and knowledge‐based society (Huang et al...

... goals in VTs (Peters and Manz, 2007 ; Zolin et al., 2004). Virtual team Trust Team performance Team cohesion Team goal setting Virtual work Team working Due to the globalization of the economy and the availability of information and communication technology, virtual teams...

... of a reward is perceived as unfair, individual satisfaction is reduced. Team‐based rewards Computer‐mediated groups Group incentives Computer‐mediated communication Reward pay Team working In times of worldwide networking, aspects of decentralization and flexibility combined with high...

...' activities. Team working Team performance Groups and teamwork 1 are often implemented in work organisations because management hopes to leverage process gains in teams, i.e. performance that exceeds what can be expected based on the capabilities of the individual members alone. However...

... settings, in which two are based on applied settings of actual intact work teams. This study is also valuable because it provides longitudinal data, given that identification is measured prior to performance. Performance management Identification Team working © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...

... this platform for the fascinating topic of this special issue. The manuscript for this editorial was handled by Dianna Stone as Action Editor. Team working Team performance Performance levels Managers The frequent implementation of groups and teams 1 in organizations reflect...

... was not moderated by either friendship or performance norms. Inferior‐ability members of the collaborative teams worked significantly harder than the coactors (attributable to the indispensability of their efforts under these work conditions), but only when their partners were friends or the performance norms...

... researchers and study participants over the one‐year study period. Team performance Team working Theoretically, it is important to determine how team members' expertise combine into team performance and whether experts are particularly important. Although it seems likely that expertise of team...

... pay is allocated on the basis of norms of equality as opposed to norms of equity, the greater the relative prevalence of autonomous help‐giving. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Team working Pay Performance related pay Incentives (psychology) With the increasing emphasis...

... Information exchange Virtual work Communication technologies Team working Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) propose a different approach of information processing. Their focus is on the organizational level, and can be extended to a certain extent to the group level. The authors distinguish between...

... can be contacted at: m.davies@gold.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Personality Team working Group work In any group there is differentiation between the group members in terms of the functions they perform (for a review, see Hare, 1994). These different functions...

... can be an important key to fostering team effectiveness. Leadership Team working Shared leadership Knowledge organizations Trust Research on team innovation and performance has become increasingly important as organizations move to flatter, more diverse ways of organizing and are forced...

..., ceteris paribus. The second is the appropriateness of initiated interdependence given a team's composition. Design/methodology/approach In an ex post facto field study, task interdependence in 267 members of 18 intact teams were examined. The teams worked on complex and inherently...

...: Communication technologies Team working Work in organizations is often accomplished in groups. In fact, effective group performance has a clear impact on organizational results and outcomes. In recent times, group work has experienced important changes due to multiple factors (McGrath and Hollingshead...

... the importance of past performance to the actual team outcomes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Conflict Team working Performance management Team performance Teams and teamwork have received considerable attention from social and organizational psychologists over the last decades...

... participants in Spain, randomly assigned to 80 three‐person teams, was used. Teams worked virtually (not meeting face‐to‐face), performing a merit‐rating task in a laboratory setting. Findings The analyses revealed an interaction effect between task interdependence and synchrony of communication. High...

... and Portugal, and provides an overview of the papers included in this special issue and an outlook for the future. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Team working Spain Portugal Current research on work teams in organizational contexts stems, in the main, from the development...

... interviews. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Work study Team working Interviews Perception Human resource management Over the last several years, a considerable amount of attention in the literature has focused on applicant perceptions of selection processes. In a recent review...

...Giles St J. Burch; Neil Anderson Further to the development of the team climate inventory (TCI), a multidimensional team‐level measure of team‐working style, this paper reports the development and psychometric validation of the team selection inventory (TSI), an individual‐level version of the TCI...

..., the moderators noted in the model provide a useful starting point for TMT members to actively consider sources of idea loss that occur in a group context. Figure 1 Conceptual model © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Creative thinking Managers Decision making Team working...