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Reilly, Peter Johnathon – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
This study examines the benefits to leaders, managers, and employees of developing emotionally intelligent work teams to improve library services and project outcomes. These high performing teams form a cohesive identity based solely upon trust. The characteristics of these groups are considered and their contribution to enhancing organizational…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Work Environment, Emotional Intelligence, Job Performance
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Berge, Zane L. – Education + Training, 1998
Comparison of student teams working on class projects and workplace teamwork finds similar characteristics of successful and unsuccessful teams. Differences include the relatively short duration of classroom groups, organizational culture, team formation, leadership, accountability, diversity, and type of task. (SK)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Group Dynamics, Postsecondary Education, Teamwork
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Polcin, Douglas L. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1991
Reviews literature on group leadership from various theoretical orientations and maintains that variable group leadership functions are necessary to address needs of different client populations and to adapt to different clinical settings. Describes four leadership functions found to be related to outcome in research by Lieberman, Yalom, and Miles…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Theories, Group Counseling, Group Dynamics
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Sundstrom, Eric; And Others – American Psychologist, 1990
Explores applications of work teams and proposes an analytic framework for team effectiveness. Presents the following applications: (1) advice and involvement; (2) production and service; (3) projects and development; and (4) action and negotiation. Depicts team effectiveness as interdependent with organizational context, boundaries, and team…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Industrial Psychology, Job Performance, Labor Relations
Hardy, Robert C. – 1982
Fiedler's Contingency Model postulates that the effectiveness of leaders results from a relationship between leadership style and situational favorability. Leadership style is measured with Fiedler's Least Preferred Coworker Scale, which assesses whether the person rating the coworker is task-oriented or oriented towards interpersonal relations.…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Graduate School Faculty, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Duignan, Patrick; Johnson, Neil – Australian Administrator, 1984
The importance of school organization and its impact on teachers' commitment to staff development has been highlighted in recent research. In schools that are favorably disposed toward staff development, the norms of "collegiality" and "experimentation" prevail. Staff practices fundamental to the creation and maintenance of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Fryer, Thomas W., Jr.; Lovas, John C. – 1990
Designed to help community college leaders direct the power of decision making and communication to fulfill the institution's mission, this book draws from on-site interviews and a survey of hundreds of community college leaders to identify and describe models of effective governance. "Leadership in governance" is defined as the creation of…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Community Colleges, Decision Making
Hase, Stewart; Davis, Lester – 2002
A 3-year research program on workplace learning was based on action research and involved the gradual implementation of "Work Activity Briefings" every 2 weeks or whenever a major task was to be undertaken at selected construction sites managed by an Australian mining and construction company. The briefings were regular meetings between…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Construction Management, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries