... rights only Globalization Cross cultural management Employees Teambuilding Increased globalization is a given in business and industry. The challenge within globalization is how to identify and recruit candidates prepared and equipped with the skills necessary for the demands and nuances...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Synergy SPGR Team Team-development Maneuver warfare Leadership Teambuilding Military-training Spin theory The core of this study is a pre- post-test quasi-experimental design (a sailing exercise) in a 12 months leadership development...

... Teambuilding Global virtual teams Performance model The extant literature shows a paucity of information on what makes a high-performing virtual team in business. The aims of this study are to design and test a model of global virtual team (GVT) performance and then to provide a profile of high...

... and team‐building in a globally‐based organization. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Globalization Leadership Managers Teambuilding A global economic expansion, unprecedented in modern economic history, is occurring as the move toward efficiency, productivity and open...

... of transformational teambuilding across cultural boundaries. Practical implications Importantly, it is not enough just to understand one's leadership style or the style of others in a leadership team; one must also exercise style flex that can enable the parties to function in a mutually‐beneficial situation...

... environment. The paper explores and maps the symbiosis between cognitive drivers of team members and team culture in performing the tasks. Teambuilding Sales performance Task analysis Leadership Mexico Sales performance in an organization is largely associated with the derived customer value...

... and Stamps, 2000 ; Robey et al., 2000). Teambuilding Leadership Communication Performance management In recent years, activities in all types of organizations have become increasingly more global, competition from both foreign and domestic sources has grown dramatically...

... Excellence , Vol. 18 No. 10 , p. 6 . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Teambuilding Team working Intranets Feedback Intranets are well suited to help provide feedback with the previously mentioned qualities. Intranets are computer‐based networks that have allowed...

... Publishing Limited 2007 Organizational performance Interpersonal relations Team working Teambuilding Today's teamwork originates in quality circles, which started in Japan in 1962. Furthermore, the first work teams were also organised in Japan in order to solve productivity and quality...

... leap to the canoe. Team management Manufacturing industries Teambuilding Team performance This paper will talk about Self‐Directed Work Teams (SDWTs) in a manufacturing setting and the skills necessary to effectively run such a team. An SDWT is defined as a goal‐oriented group...

... of personal attributes lays a foundation for different team role capabilities and improves the propensity for high performance (Partington and Harris, 1999). Elizabeth Yeh can be contacted at: elizyeh@aol.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Teams Teambuilding Team workings...

..., education and ideas rather than dividing it across functions and levels within an organization creates productivity. General electric (GE) has had a lot of experience with making changes through the teams' approach. At their Decatur, Alabama location, they focus on teambuilding by teaching others...

.... Originality/value Future research might investigate the complementary perspective of line management and take up the theme of high fluctuation of team members and leaders. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Trust Team management Cross‐cultural management Teambuilding Virtual organizations...

... on the author's 20 years' experience as an internal OD executive, external consultant, and associate professor in the areas of organizational change and teambuilding. Findings The article concludes that team‐building failures frequently occur when facilitators operate from team archetypes that are radically...

... diversity in depth and across contexts revealing that embedded assets in relationships extensively impact group processes and performance. Table I highlights the major empirical findings from this literature review. Group work Group behaviour Team working Team performance Teambuilding...

... Teambuilding This paper summarises the findings of a study investigating the influence of team composition on team performance in situations of differing task complexity. A review of the literature on teams suggested that team composition has an effect on team performance (e.g. Higgs, 1999a, b...

... Publishing Limited 2005 Team performance Productivity rate Teambuilding Conversation What is required to make groups productive? Taking a social constructionist's perspective to this question means acknowledging the importance of conversation as a significant element in the social...

... Limited 2005 Teambuilding Small enterprises Women This study deals with the creation of teams in small businesses. It is based on a survey performed for Nutek (Swedish Business Development Agency) that started in 1992. The purpose was to identify the obstacles and opportunities facing...

... and adopt a culture that supports a collaborative work system. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Leadership Team working Team management Teambuilding Team leaders Although in existence for nearly 500 years, the writings of Niccolo Macchiavelli, the Italian historian...

... organizations, creating a matrix of 1,020 answers which were then put into the three areas and examined for commonality of issues, trends and tentative conclusions. Team performance Leadership Teambuilding Team working Team effectiveness is central to any organization. The literature abounds...