Team conflict and the neurologist

the relationship between conflict type, conflict management approach and team effectiveness of super league volleyball clubs

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between conflict type (task, relation), conflict management approach (cooperative, competitive) and team effectiveness of iranian super league volleyball clubs. the sample consisted of all players and coaches of 13 teams from 16th tournament of super league volleyball clubs in 2007 were selected. jhen conflict type questionnaire, tjo...

Neurosurgery and the neurologist.

When Thomas Willis (1621–1675) first used the term “ neurology” in Cerebri Anatome to mean knowledge of the cranial, spinal, and autonomic nerves, he did not specify whether practitioners should be physicians or surgeons. The physicians won the mantle but somehow this did not catch the imagination of the public or even aspiring doctors in the same way as that of being a “brain surgeon”, a term ...

Representational Gaps, Team Integration and Team Creativity: The Mediating Roles of Conflict and Coordination

Functional diversity is central to the performance of product development teams in that multiple perspectives increase the team’s creativity. Failures in cross-functional product development teams (CFPDTs) are often attributed to a team’s inability to capitalize on their diversity. In this study we develop and test a model based on the representational gaps perspective (Cronin & Weingart, 2007a...

Hospitals turning to team-based conflict resolution.

The specialist neurologist and the "new genetics".

The "new genetics" will require specialist physicians to deal with an increasing number of genetic issues. Huntington disease (HD) is a rare single gene adult-onset fatal neurodegenerative disorder. It provides a model to illustrate the role of the specialist physician in the new genetics. DNA testing options in HD include diagnostic DNA tests to confirm a provisional diagnosis, and predictive ...