PURPOSE Burnout is a threat to the primary care workforce. We investigated the relationship between team structure, team culture, and emotional exhaustion of clinicians and staff in primary care practices. METHODS We surveyed 231 clinicians and 280 staff members of 10 public and 6 university-run primary care clinics in San Francisco in 2012. Predictor variables included team structure, such a...

Creating an effective team environment is vital to succeed. More often than not there’s no opportunity for personality clashes, team members can’t be picky about which clients they prefer to deal with them. The present study is an empirical study consists of 60 samples out of 120 working employees to the tune of 50 per cent of the population. Both the Primary and ...

Emergency medical dispatch (EMD) is typically a team activity, requiring fluid coordination and communication between team members. Such working situations have often been described in terms of distributed cognition (DC), a framework for understanding team working. DC takes account of factors such as shared representations and artefacts to support reasoning about team working. Although the lang...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the association between changes in perceived physical and psychosocial working conditions and change of sickness absence days in younger and older (< 50 and ≥ 50 years) food industry employees. METHODS This was a follow up study of 679 employees, who completed working conditions survey questionnaires in 2005 and 2009 and for whom the requisite sickness absence data were ...

Many primary care practices have created a team structure in which a clinician and medical assistant "teamlet" form the core of a larger team. The larger team comprises a few teamlets supported by other clinical personnel. Patients are empaneled to a particular teamlet. The teamlet structure, which turns large practices into small units, is attractive to patients, most of whom prefer small rath...

This study examined the relationship between two cognitive ability measures, Grade Point Average (GPA) and verbal working memory capacity, and performance on a team task. Forty 3-person teams of students voluntarily participated in two experiments that required three team members to maneuver a simulated Uninhabited Air Vehicle (UAV) to take reconnaissance photos. Each of the team members assume...

Recent advances in networking environments and telecommunications have led to the proliferation of teams that do not work face-to-face but interact over a computermediated communications network. Although some have asserted that virtual teams transcend boundaries of time or distance, others have claimed that working remotely in a mediated team environment differs in significant ways from workin...

Our team was split geographically. One team was working on an embedded application. The success of XP on an earlier, similar project, led management to decide to do XP with some members from the previous team. The embedded developers were convinced that XP would not work for hardware or firmware development. The GUI team used XP from the start. The firmware team chose to use a form of iterative...

Is there a nurse alive whose attention would not be grabbed by a report on team working and the stress it can cause? Probably not. Well, take a look at the Health and Safety Executive website at http://www.hse.gov.uk and there it is in a list of new publications, sandwiched between a statistical report on offshore injuries and one on reducing at-work road traffic accidents. The HSE has produced...