Abstract An important question in the field of team research is how teams can optimize their collaboration to maximize performance. When members who are collaborating towards a common purpose experience flow together, team, as performing unit, improves its performance and delivers individual happiness members. From practical point view, it relevant know experiences arise within professional org...

background: the manner in which healthcare professionals deliver bad news affects the way it is received, interpreted, understood, and dealt with. despite the fact that clinicians are responsible for breaking bad news, it has been shown that they lack skills necessary to perform this task. objectives: the purpose of this study was to explore iranian mothers’ experiences to receive bad news abou...

Drawing on two waves of survey data conducted six months apart in 2006, this study examined the impacts of a team-level flexibility initiative (ROWE--results only work environment) on changes in the work-home spillover and health behavior of employees at the Midwest headquarters of a large U.S. corporation. Using cluster analysis, we identified three distinct baseline spillover constellations: ...

This report describes an investigation into best practices in agile software development. Agile software development methods represent the latest incarnation of software engineering methods designed to be user-centric, low cost, and focused on rapid delivery of high-quality software systems. This survey of empirical and theoretical studies of agile methods provides a summary of the practices fo...

We study whether the gender performance gap is affected by the gender composition of teams. A real-effort experiment is employed with wages based either on the team’s performance, or on the outcome of a competition between teams. We find that, relative to a single-sex environment, gender diversity increases the gender performance gap with team pay whereas it decreases the gap with team competit...