A two-week mission in March and April of 2011 sent six team members to the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). MDRS, a research facility in the high Utah desert, provides an analogue for the harsh and unusual working conditions that will be faced by men and women who one day explore Mars. During the mission a selection of quantitative and qualitative psychological tests were administered to th...

Introduction of the operational concept Integrated Operations (IO) by petroleum companies operating on the Norwegian Continental Shelf implies an increased use of distributed teams (IO teams) in operation of petroleum installations. To develop teamwork training programs for members of IO teams, it is necessary to understand what teamwork competencies IO team members need to work proficiently as...

The article substantiates the relevance of personnel management issues in a team, shows features implementation function and proves that traditional methods are not very effective working with team personnel. goals, objectives factors determined. A typology teams is presented affects functions team. characteristics main given: definition strategy team; planning to provide necessary personnel; a...

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our baseline treatment, but women and ...

INTRODUCTION We describe and quantify the wide range of activities that a mature Medical Emergency Team can progressively perform. METHODS The activities performed by a Medical Emergency Team 20 years after its introduction were prospectively collected during 105 consecutive days. RESULTS The main activity was focused on the follow-up visits to previously treated critically ill patients (me...

TODAY, WORKING with colleagues in different locations is more common than not, from globally distributed software projects to R&D projects to manifold business processes in companies across all industry sectors. Global software projects, however, have a mixed reputation. Proponents suggest that globalization enables a variety of bene ts, such as cost reduction, shorter time to market, access to...

Co-operative teamwork among undergraduate and graduate students is increasingly common in marketing education. Research on this topic has been valuable in identifying problems that students experience, describing the ways that groups perform on various constructs of general interest and in recommending ways to help students overcome common team problems (see Batra et al. 1997). Yet, in order to...

conclusions based on the study results, making plans to promote mental aspect of nurses, focusing on family foundations like marriage, reducing and distributing working hours, and decreasing night shifts hours of nurses could reduce their depression and improve their quality of life. results according to the final model yielded from path analysis, the most important factors contributing to depr...

The Inner South Community Health Service diabetes working group was convened in 2001 to improve the management of diabetes and develop a clear model of care for Inner South Community Health Service clients with diabetes. Early initiatives included developing a screening tool, a resource folder, staff training and a short term project to complete a needs analysis and propose a model of care. In ...

Productivity is one of the main objectives in team working, and among other goals such as quality, efficiency, etc., it is a key to success in any organization. Team members have to work collaboratively and cohesively on the task, and the level of cooperation will also reflect on the final productivity. Many factors affect team productivity. Some are clear and obvious, e.g. technical and physic...