This paper compliments Hackman‟s (2002) work on the critical conditions for effecting „self-regulated‟ teamwork with an understanding of team psychology. Assuming various structural pre-requisites, we propose that effective teamwork is generated by a social self-identification process, upon which there are „emergent states‟ across affective (commitment, cohesion), motivational (drive to secure ...

Evaluating readiness of individual public agencies to execute specific e-Government programs and directives is a key ingredient for wider eGovernment deployment and success. This article describes how the eGov-MM model was used to over 30 many Chilean public agencies and to identify specific areas in which each of them should focus improvement efforts. eGovMM is a capability maturity model, pat...

Inheritance is one of the key concepts in object-oriented programming. However, the usefulness of inheritance in concurrent objectoriented programming is greatly reduced by the problem of inheritance anomaly. Inheritance anomaly is manifested by undesirable re-definitions of inherited code. The problem is aggravated by the lack of a formal analysis, with a multitude of differing proposals and c...