Team performance - The effect of team conscientiousness and task type

Small Group Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 643-665

  English, Andrew ^a,b   Griffith, Richard L ^b   Steelman, Lisa A ^b  

^a ThoughtLink Inc   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Frame of reference; Levels of analysis; Personality; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 9944224125     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496404266320     Document Type: Article

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