Does team building work?

Small Group Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-222

  Klein, Cameron ^a   DiazGranados, Deborah ^a   Salas, Eduardo ^a   Le, Huy ^a   Burke, C Shawn ^a   Lyons, Rebecca ^a   Goodwin, Gerald F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Army Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Team building; Team development; Team performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349127533     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496408328821     Document Type: Article

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