Is team confidence the key to success? The reciprocal relation between collective efficacy, team outcome confidence, and perceptions of team performance during soccer games

Running head: RELATION BETWEEN TEAM CONFIDENCE AND PERFORMANCE

26 The present manuscript extends previous research on the reciprocal relation between 27 team confidence and perceived team performance in two ways. First, we distinguished 28 between two types of team confidence; process-oriented collective efficacy and outcome29 oriented team outcome confidence. Second, we assessed both types not only before and after 30 the game, but for the first time also...

Radiation exposure during percutaneous nephrolithotomy; Is there a risk of the patient and the operating team?

Background: The aim of this study was to calculate the radiation amount exposed during percutaneous nephrolithototomy (PCNL) and to make the urologists and other staff sensitive about the radiation risk they were exposed to. Materials and Methods: We measured the radiation exposure during 114 cases of PCNL performed. Thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD) were placed between the operation table and...

One Big Happy Family? Unraveling the Relationship between Shared Perceptions of Team Psychological Contracts, Person-Team Fit and Team Performance

With the knowledge that team work is not always associated with high(er) performance, we draw from the Multi-Level Theory of Psychological Contracts, Person-Environment Fit Theory, and Optimal Distinctiveness Theory to study shared perceptions of psychological contract (PC) breach in relation to shared perceptions of complementary and supplementary fit to explain why some teams perform better t...

The magmaFreiburg Soccer Team

The Impact of Top Management Team Diversity on Company Performance

This study aims to examine the impact of diversity among the members of top management team (TMT) on financial performance of manufacturing firms. Diversity components of the top management team were divided into two categories of managerial background variables (age, gender, background, education, work skills), and managerial areas (industrial and international). In addition, financial perform...