This paper examines the learner-centered methodology used to design technical and physical components for the Constructed Narratives project. Our approach demonstrates how an interdisciplinary team of designers, artists and technologist can exploit the opportunities inherent with “symmetry of ignorance” to solve complex wicked design problems and develop the gestalt generative design methodolog...

INTRODUCTION A crisis team management (CTM) simulation course was developed by volunteers from Health Volunteers Overseas for physicians and nurses at Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The framework for the course was adapted from crisis resource management (1, 2), crisis team training (3), and TeamSTEPPs© models (4). The CTM course focused on teaching physicians and nu...

The trend toward physically dispersed work groups has necessitated a fresh inquiry into the role and nature of team leadership in virtual settings. To accomplish this, we assembled thirteen culturally diverse global teams from locations in Europe, Mexico, and the United States, assigning each team a project leader and task to complete. The findings suggest that effective team leaders demonstrat...

BACKGROUND Competency-based medical education increasingly recognizes the importance of observation, feedback, and reflection for trainee development. Although bedside rounds provide opportunities for authentic workplace-based implementation of feedback and team-based reflection strategies, this relationship has not been well described. The authors sought to understand the content and timing of...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine how clinical team leadership can facilitate a collaborative team and, in doing so, drive change in a health service. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Ethnographic field work was conducted with a clinical team, comprised of 13 health professionals, in community health, in Sydney Australia. Utilising semi-structured interviews, data were co...

Indonesian higher education has experienced significant changes over the last decade. In 1999, the government published an overall strategy for decentralisation and enhancement of local autonomy in many sectors, including (higher) education. Indonesian higher education reforms have forced universities to restructure their internal university governance to become more entrepreneurial. These new ...

Interest in the theory and practice of teams in organizations has grown dramatically in recent years as evidenced by studies such as LaFasto and Larson’s (2001) research with over 6,000 team members and leaders. While there have been explorations into what characterizes effective teams, very little has been done to demonstrate what leadership behaviors, both at the organizational level and at t...

This study empirically examines the relationship between trust, leadership, and team performance with two objectives. The first objective is to empirically examine an assumption found in several literatures – that a team’s trust in their leader has a significant effect on the team’s performance. The second objective is to explore a more complex and dynamic relationship between trust and team pe...

We conducted an exploratory study to examine the unique electronic mail usage patterns exhibited by the emergent leaders in seven teams of senior executives of a federal government agency. The team members worked together over ten weeks via electronic mail in the context of an executive development program. The goal of the analysis was to identify the distinct patterns of communication behavior...

This study examined 2 leader functions likely to be instrumental in synchronizing large systems of teams (i.e., multiteam systems [MTSs]). Leader strategizing and coordinating were manipulated through training, and effects on functional leadership, interteam coordination, and MTS performance were examined. Three hundred eighty-four undergraduate students participated in a laboratory simulation ...