Gaming techniques to improve the team-formation process

Team Performance Management: An International Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 11-20

  Butterfield, Jeff ^a   Pendegraft, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Games; Groups; Teamwork; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986100054     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527599610131863     Document Type: Article

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