Teams in Organizations: Recent Research on Performance and Effectiveness

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue , 1996, Pages 307-338

  Guzzo, Richard A ^a   Dickson, Marcus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous workgroups; Cockpit resource management; Computer assisted groups; Group dynamics; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0642314186     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.47.1.307     Document Type: Article

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