Team task analysis: Differentiating between tasks using team relatedness and team workflow as metrics of team task interdependence

Human Factors

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 277-295

  Arthur, Winfred ^a   Glaze, Ryan M ^a   Bhupatkar, Alok ^a   Villado, Anton J ^a   Bennett, Winston ^b   Rowe, Leah J ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c L 3 Communications   (United States)

Author keywords

task interdependence; team interdependence; team relatedness; team task analysis; team workflow; team based jobs; teams

Indexed keywords

TASK ANALYSIS; TASK INTERDEPENDENCE; TEAM INTERDEPENDENCE; TEAM RELATEDNESS; TEAM WORKFLOW; TEAM-BASED JOBS; TEAMS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

JOB ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOLDIER; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AVIATION; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84859359811     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720811435234     Document Type: Article

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