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Teams in Small Organizations: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Considerations
Research on teams and teamwork has flourished in the last few decades. Much of what we know about teams and teamwork comes from research using short-term student teams in the lab, teams in larger organizations, and, more recently, teams in rather unique and extreme environments. The context in which...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33815183 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.530291 |
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author | Reiter-Palmon, Roni Kennel, Victoria Allen, Joseph A. |
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description | Research on teams and teamwork has flourished in the last few decades. Much of what we know about teams and teamwork comes from research using short-term student teams in the lab, teams in larger organizations, and, more recently, teams in rather unique and extreme environments. The context in which teams operate influences team composition, processes, and effectiveness. Small organizations are an understudied and often overlooked context that presents a rich opportunity to augment our understanding of teams and team dynamics. In this paper, we discuss how teams and multi-team systems in small organizations may differ from those found in larger organizations. Many of these differences present both methodological and practical challenges to studying team composition and processes in small complex organizational settings. We advocate for applying and accepting new and less widely used methodological approaches to advance our understanding of the science of teams and teamwork in such contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-80126692021-04-02 Teams in Small Organizations: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Considerations Reiter-Palmon, Roni Kennel, Victoria Allen, Joseph A. Front Psychol Psychology Research on teams and teamwork has flourished in the last few decades. Much of what we know about teams and teamwork comes from research using short-term student teams in the lab, teams in larger organizations, and, more recently, teams in rather unique and extreme environments. The context in which teams operate influences team composition, processes, and effectiveness. Small organizations are an understudied and often overlooked context that presents a rich opportunity to augment our understanding of teams and team dynamics. In this paper, we discuss how teams and multi-team systems in small organizations may differ from those found in larger organizations. Many of these differences present both methodological and practical challenges to studying team composition and processes in small complex organizational settings. We advocate for applying and accepting new and less widely used methodological approaches to advance our understanding of the science of teams and teamwork in such contexts. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8012669/ /pubmed/33815183 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.530291 Text en Copyright © 2021 Reiter-Palmon, Kennel and Allen. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Reiter-Palmon, Roni Kennel, Victoria Allen, Joseph A. Teams in Small Organizations: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Considerations |
title | Teams in Small Organizations: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Considerations |
title_full | Teams in Small Organizations: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Considerations |
title_fullStr | Teams in Small Organizations: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Considerations |
title_full_unstemmed | Teams in Small Organizations: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Considerations |
title_short | Teams in Small Organizations: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Considerations |
title_sort | teams in small organizations: conceptual, methodological, and practical considerations |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33815183 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.530291 |
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