Increasing the Odds for High-Performance Teams: Lessons Learned

Author:   Arlen Leholm ,  Raymond Vlasin
Publisher:   Michigan State University Press
ISBN:  

9780870137778


Pages:   293
Publication Date:   03 January 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Increasing the Odds for High-Performance Teams: Lessons Learned


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Have you ever wondered why some work teams greatly out-perform others within the same organizational settings? Have you questioned whether work teams from very different sectors of the economy and society achieved a high performance level by using similar means? Have you considered what you or others might do to help teams increase their chances of becoming truly high performing? ""Increasing the Odds for High-Performance Teams"" is written for the business leader who is inquisitive but busy - who seeks new lessons about high team performance, but wants them to be succinct and efficient. The book is intended to assist professionals in private, public, and not-for-profit organizations who want to use teams to enhance job performance. Also, it is intended to be helpful to the team members, team leaders, mentors, coaches, and administrators across these sectors who want to diagnose their team and organizational conditions, in order to make improvements.

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Author:   Arlen Leholm ,  Raymond Vlasin
Publisher:   Michigan State University Press
Imprint:   Michigan State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780870137778


ISBN 10:   0870137778
Pages:   293
Publication Date:   03 January 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

* The Book, the Cases, the Protocol; * Learning from the Masters of Team Performance; * Quaker Oats: A Team at the Top with Joint Management and Union Leadership; * The Teams of TIGER; * Bosch Teams: Two Creative Arrangements; * Michigan State University Extension and Ohio State University Extension Self-Directed Teams; * The Women's Interest Group: The Hill Women; * Broader Lessons from the Cases Explored.

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Arlen Leholm is Dean and Director of Cooperative Extension for the University of Wisconsin. Raymond Vlasin is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University. He was also director of the Natural Resource Economics Division of Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a Staff Economist for the House Public Works Committee

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