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Book SynopsisIn today's fast changing, hyper-competitive environment, teamwork and co-operative working enhance the organisation's adaptive capability. The team, rather than the individual, is increasingly seen as the building block of organisations and a key source of competitive advantage.
Table of ContentsAbout the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT OF COOPERATION.
1: Teamwork and Cooperation: Fundamentals of Organizational Effectiveness (Dean Tjosvold, Michael A.West & Ken G. Smith).
2: Cooperation and Conflict: A Personal Perspective on the History of the Social Psychological Study of Conflict Resolution (Morton Deutsch).
3: Evolution of Cooperation (Martin Evans).
4: Cooperation, Trust and the Values of Community: A Political and Institutional Perspective (Catherine Fieschi).
5: Contextualizing Cooperation (Greg Young).
SECTION II: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INDIVIDUALS IN GROUPS.
6: Trust, Identity, and Attachment: Promoting Individuals' Cooperation in Groups (M. Audrey Korsgaard, Susan E. Brodt and Harry J. Sapienza).
7: The Role of Cognition in Managing Conflict to Maximize Team Effectiveness: A Team Member Schema Similarity Approach (Joan R. Rentsch and Jacqueline A. Zelno).
8: A Contingency Theory of Task Conflict and Performance in Groups and Organizational Teams (Carsten K.W. De Dreu and Laurie R. Weingart).
9: Training for Cooperative Group Work (David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson).
SECTION III: WORK GROUPS.
Team-based Organization: Creating an Environment for Team Success (Cheryl L. Harris and Michael M. Beyerlein).
11: Team Decision Making in Organizations (Mary Ann Glynn and Pamela S. Barr).
12: Power in Groups and Organizations (Peter T. Coleman and Maxim Voronov).
13: Managing the Risk of Learning: Psychological Safety in Work Teams (Amy C. Edmondson).
14: Managing Workforce Diversity to Enhance Cooperation in Organizations (Aparna Joshi and Susan E. Jackson).
15: Cooperation and Teamwork for Innovation (Michael A. West and Giles Hirst).
16: Skill Acquisition and the Development of a Team Mental Model: An Integrative Approach to Analysing Organizational Teams, Task, and Context (Janice Langan-Fox).
17: Social Loafing in Teams (Christel G. Rutte).
SECTION IV: INTEGRATED ORGANIZATIONS.
18: Intergroup Relations in Organizations (Daan van Knippenberg).
19: Difficulties Fostering Cooperative Agreements in Multiparty Negotiations: Cognitive, Procedural, Structural, and Social (Barbara Gray and Dana R. Clyman).
20: Network Structures and Teamwork (Kevin D. Clark).
21: Teamwork in the Netcentric Organization (Ritu Agarwal).
22: Designing Organizations for Large-scale Product Development: The Role of Cooperative Work Teams (Robert Drazin, Robert K. Kazanjian and Maureen Blyler).
23: Teamwork as Competitive Advantage (Russell W. Coff).
24: A Strategic HR Perspective on Top Executives (Cynthia Kay Stevens).
SECTION V: ALLIANCES BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS.
25: Teamwork in Relationship Marketing (Peter A. Dunne and James G. Barnes).
26: Strategic Alliances and the Evolution of Trust across Organization Levels (Steven C. Currall and Andrew C. Inkpen).
27: When East and West Meet: Effective Teamwork across Cultures (Kwok Leung, Lin Lu and Xiangfen Liang).
SECTION VI: CONCLUSIONS.
28: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives on Organizational Cooperation (Michael A. West, Ken G. Smith and Dean Tjosvold).
Author Index.
Subject Index.
