Skill Acquisition and the Development of a Team Mental Model: An Integrative Approach to Analysing Organizational Teams, Task, and Context

International Handbook of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 321-360

  Langan Fox, Janice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Organizational teams; Skill acquisition; Team mental model; Workforce productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948757879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696712.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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