Can team effectiveness be predicted?

Team Performance Management

Volumn 14, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 248-268

  Ross, T Meredith ^a   Jones, Erick C ^a   Adams, Stephanie G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Behaviour; Performance management; Team working

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249113593     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527590810898518     Document Type: Article

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