Developing teams for optimal performance in modern workplaces
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Authors
Coetzee, Melinde
Issue Date
2018-10-23
Type
Book
Language
en
Keywords
Team leadership , team development , Team assessment , Kriek, Hendrik S. , Team leadership, theories, tools and techniques
Alternative Title
Team leadership, theories, tools and techniques
Abstract
The book, Team leadership, theories, tools and techniques, offers a compendium of theories, tools
and techniques for team leaders facing the challenge of optimising their teams’ performance.
The author succeeds in differentiating between the utility of theories (i.e. overarching explanatory
lenses for understanding phenomena), tools (e.g. assessment instruments) and techniques
(i.e. practical behaviours and actions) in maximising team performance in modern organisational
life. Anchored in sound theoretical and research-practice (evidence-based) foundations, the book
serves as a novel example of ‘pracademic learning’ (Kriek, in press, p. 8). Academic stances on
team development are made helpful and practical for team leaders by demonstrating the utility of
a number of selected classical theories and assessment instruments in daily organisational life.
Each chapter closes with a brief outline coined as ‘tips to team leaders’ on the usefulness of the
theory, tools and/or techniques offered. Further reading options for deeper exploration of sources
consulted are also provided. In this regard, the book offers the reader and team leader the choice
of drawing from the book whatever they find most appropriate and useful for application in their
unique team contexts
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Citation
Coetzee, M. (2018). Developing teams for optimal performance in modern workplaces. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology/SA Tydskrif vir Bedryfsielkunde, 44(0), a1589. https://doi.org/ 10.4102/sajip.v44i0.1589
Publisher
AOSIS Publishing
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ISSN
2071-0763