High Performance Teams: What Makes the Difference?

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

International Journal of Applied Management

Volume

2

Issue

3

Publisher

International Management Journals

Publication Date

4-1-2005

First Page

1

Last Page

7

Abstract

During the past number of decades, team structures have produced significant results for organizations (Kirkman & Rosen, 2000). Even since the 1980s, organizations have significantly increased and improved group and team structure use. By 1997, Cohen and Bailey found that organizations with greater than 100 employees utilized team structures 82 percent of the time. They also found that 68 percent of the Fortune 1000 utilized team structures of some sort, while Shulman (1996) found that 47 percent of these companies utilized teams. This increase in teams has since made major contributions by helping organizations increase efficiency, flexibility, and performance. Therefore, more organizations are beginning to utilized work groups and teams as a part of doing business (Jehns & Mannix, 2001).

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