Measuring sharedness of team-related knowledge: Design and validation of a shared mental model instrument

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 437-454

  Johnson, Tristan E ^a   Lee, Youngmin ^b   Lee, Miyoung ^a   O'Connor, Debra L ^a   Khalil, Mohammed K ^c   Huang, Xiaoxia ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

^c Intelligent Decisions Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrument design; Shared mental model; Team knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019492539     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678860701723802     Document Type: Article

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