If teamwork is the key to organizational learning, productivity and growth, then, why do some teams succeed in achieving these, while others falter at different stages? Building teams in higher education institutions has been a challenge and an open-ended constructivist approach was considered on an experimental basis for this study to address this challenge. For this research, teams of student...

Team analysis and team development are important instruments of organizational development and quality management. They contribute to team optimization in medical rehabilitation. Team analysis allows assessment of strengths and weaknesses of teams, resulting in possible recommendations for team development. So far there are only a few empirical studies and little practical experience analyzing ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate healthcare students' perceptions of an introductory interprofessional exercise and their team dynamics. DESIGN A workshop was developed, combining second-year medical students, fourth-year nursing students, and third-year pharmacy students to work as an interdisciplinary team. The teams alternated between working together on patient cases focusing on chronic obstructive ...

OBJECTIVE To assess surgical team members' differences in perception of non-technical skills. DESIGN Questionnaire design. SETTING Operating theatres (OTs) at one university hospital, three teaching hospitals and one general hospital in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-six surgeons, 97 OT nurses, 18 anaesthetists and 40 nurse anaesthetists. METHODS All surgical team members, of five ...

Team performance is increasingly recognised as an essential foundation of good surgical care and a determinant of good surgical outcome. To understand team performance and to develop team training, reliable and valid measures of team performance are necessary. Currently there is no firm consensus on how to measure teamwork, partly because of a lack of empirical data to validate measures. The in...

Across health care, teamwork is a critical element for effective patient care. Yet, numerous well-intentioned training programs may fail to achieve the desired outcomes in team performance. Hope for the improvement of teamwork in health care is provided by the success of the aviation and military communities in utilizing simulation-based training (SBT) for training and evaluating teams. This co...

This article presents a case-study of a theoretical multi-agent system designed to clean up ecological disasters. It focuses on the interactions within a team of agents, outlines their goals, and establishes the necessary distribution of knowledge and commitment throughout the team. In addition, cooperation between teams is treated. These aspects of teamwork are presented in the TEAMLOG formali...

Background and aims: Teamwork is a way of organizing activities in health and health care that provides a broad approach to health needs. Due to the key role of teamwork for care and nursing profession, the study of the motivational factors and job barriers has considerable importance. Thus, the aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between team work, job motivation and job...

BACKGROUND Effectively managing patient safety and clinicians' emotional exhaustion are important goals of healthcare organizations. Previous cross-sectional studies showed that teamwork is associated with both. However, causal relationships between all three constructs have not yet been investigated. Moreover, the role of different dimensions of teamwork in relation to emotional exhaustion and...

In this paper, we demonstrate that bad audit behavior is transmitted through the teamwork experience of individual auditors. We find that auditors who have previously worked in a team (team auditors) with those who are sanctioned by the regulators for audit failure (contagious auditors) are more likely to issue lenient audit opinions, and their audited accounting numbers are more likely to be d...