Attitudes towards factors influencing team performance: A multi-rater approach aimed at establishing the relative importance of team learning behaviors in comparison with other predictors of team performance

Team Performance Management

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 451-474

  Savelsbergh, Chantal M J H ^a   van der Heijden, Beatrice I J M ^a,b,c   Poell, Rob F ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Employee attitudes; Performance criteria; Team learning; Team performance; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049497800     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527591011090682     Document Type: Article

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