PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of disagreement and cohesiveness on knowledge sharing in teams, and on the performance of individual team members. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: Data were obtained from a survey among 1,354 employees working in 126 teams in 17 organizations. FINDINGS: The results show that cohesiveness has a positive effect on the exchange of advice b...

Improving patient safety and the culture of care are health service priorities that coexist with financial pressures on organisations. Research suggests team training and better team processes can improve team culture, safety, performance, and clinical outcomes, yet opportunities for interprofessional learning remain scarce. Perioperative practitioners work in a high pressure, high-risk environ...

Transformational leadership is important because it provides not only direction but it also creates opportunities for professional development. This qualitative investigation explored how medical doctors, in order to be transformative, should negotiate with advanced practice nurses while working in collaboration with them. The results first suggest that medical doctors and advanced practice nur...

today, teams are a key resource for learning and work in organizations and this has increased the importance of designing team-based structures. diversity management teams is something that managers should consider when team building. the effect of team diversity on team outcomes and its moderating variable,hasn’t completely identified yet in iran. therefore, given the importance of, this study...

Team learning is a complex social phenomenon that develops and changes over time. Hence, to promote understanding of the fine-grained dynamics of team learning, research should account for the temporal patterns of team learning behavior. Taking important steps in this direction, this special issue offers novel insights into the dynamics of team learning by advocating a temporal perspective. Bas...

The growing complexity and dynamics of professional work increasingly require teamwork. Continuous learning while working will be obligatory to meet the performance requirements of the workplace. In this context asynchronous collaboration becomes more common and poses new educational design questions. Many questions regarding these new ways of working and learning are yet to be resolved. One pi...

In order to make strategic decisions, the new leadership team at the College of Agriculture at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona conducted a series of focus group interviews with its students, faculty, and staff members. The purpose of this qualitative study was to poll the opinions of these important stakeholders to improve the teaching-learning process in the college, to pro...

The educational mission of our journal reaches beyond the goal of expanding the understanding of unique cases and novel approaches to challenging clinical questions. The generation of a published case report manuscript involves a team of authors, reviewers, editors, and publication staff. It is my belief that the quality of a manuscript depends equally on all members of that team, and that by w...

In this working notes paper the contribution of the LIG team (partnership between Univ. Grenoble Alpes and Ozyegin University) to the Multimodal Person Discovery in Broadcast TV task in MediaEval 2015 is presented. The task focused on unsupervised learning techniques. Two different approaches were submitted by the team. In the first one, new features for face and speech modalities were tested. ...