Schools as Team-Based Organizations: A Structure-Process-Outcomes Approach

Group Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 305-320

  Somech, Anit ^a   Drach Zahavy, Anat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

frequency of meetings; functional heterogeneity; interaction processes; schools; team effectiveness

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MANAGER; MOTIVATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEACHER; TEAMWORK;

EID: 38549106926     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2699.11.4.305     Document Type: Article

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