Effects of workload and structure on team processes and performance: Implications for complex team decision making

Human Factors

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 300-310

  Urban, Julie M ^a,b   Weaver, Jeanne L ^a   Bowers, Clint A ^a,c   Rhodenizer, Lori ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DOWLING COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADED PERFORMANCE; TEAM DECISION MAKING; TIME PRESSURE; WORKLOAD;

AVAILABILITY; ERGONOMICS; JOB ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

DECISION MAKING;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEAMWORK; TIME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0030175211     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872096779048101     Document Type: Article

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