The selection process of team leaders is fundamental if the effectiveness of teams is to be guaranteed. Human values have proven to be an important factor in the behaviour of individuals and leaders. The aim of this study is twofold. The first is to validate Schwartz's survey of human values. The second is to determine whether there are any relationships between the values held by individuals a...

The paper considers the problem of driving a formation of autonomous mobile agents. The group of mobile devices is represented by a leader-follower network, where the followers update their position using a simple local consensus procedure, while the leaders, whose positions represent the control inputs of the network, are free to move. We characterize the transient behavior of the network, and...

BACKGROUND Presence of a trauma team leader (TTL) in the trauma team is associated with positive patient outcomes in major trauma. The TTL is traditionally a surgeon who coordinates the resuscitation and ensures adherence to Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) guidelines. The necessity of routine surgical leadership in the resuscitative component of trauma care has been questioned by some autho...

The authors investigated the relationship between transformational leadership behavior and group performance in 218 financial services teams that were branches of a bank in Hong Kong and the United States. Transformational leadership influenced team performance through the mediating effect of team potency. The effect of transformational leadership on team potency was moderated by team power dis...

1 Most often situated multi-agent simulations, of which platform-games are an example, uses reactive agents. This approach has limitations as soon as complex behaviours are desired. For these reasons we propose an approach using cognitive agents. They have knowledge, objectives and are able to build plans in order to achieve their goals and then execute them. In this paper we particularly addre...

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of leader. About 430 students from an Italian University took intermediate exam that was partly evaluated basis teamwork. Students were randomly matched three and each team we chose leader with task coordinating work team. find positive significant effect female leadership performance. This is...

Although trust is widely acknowledged as critical to virtual teams, little is known regarding the causes and consequences of trust in leaders of virtual teams. This paper examines the antecedents and consequences of trust in virtual team leaders. Using survey and archival data from a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), this study’s findings show that trust in the leader is affected by tea...

These guidelines should not be construed as including all proper methods of care or excluding other acceptable methods of care reasonably directed to obtaining the same results. The ultimate judgment regarding any specific clinical procedure or treatment must be made by the physician in light of the circumstances presented by the patient. Vertebral Osteomyelitis, Discitis, and Spinal Epidural A...

This chapter introduces an agent-based support model for group emotion, used by ambient systems that support teams in their emotion dynamics. Using model-based reasoning, an ambient agent analyzes the team’s emotion level for present and future time points. In case the team’s emotion level is found to become deficient, the ambient agent provides support to the team, for example, by proposing th...

Abstract We assumed that the perception of leader as an attachment figure would mediate relationship between transformational leadership and leader/follower's reports team performance. Leaders ( N = 38) employees 204) completed separate questionnaire batteries. Team members assessed their perceptions figure, leaders, general citizenship style performance teams. applied multi-level structural eq...