Overview
Addressing a key concern in human service and other organizational settings concerned with effective teamwork, this book offers a new paradigm for conceptualizing the subject. Based on qualitative research conducted with teams working with the chronically ill, elderly, and with high-risk psychiatric patients, Anne Opie has developed a method of working with teams that focuses on teamwork as ""knowledge work"" and is applicable to a variety of disciplines and settings. Most discussions of teamwork have focused on the team players, notably their interpersonal relationships. Drawing on Foucauldian theories of discourse, Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients provides a postmodern analysis of teamwork that stresses working with professional knowledge in an organizational context. It stresses the need for different kinds of disciplinary knowledge in teams, and discusses the role of organizations in achieving more effective teamwork.
Full Product Details
Author: Anne Opie
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.80cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9780231116855
ISBN 10: 0231116853
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 26 January 2001
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
<p> Scholars will find the book to be well documented, and are likely to find the analysis of teamwork from the postmodern perspective to be enlightening. -- Social Work with Groups
Scholars will find the book to be well documented, and are likely to find the analysis of teamwork from the postmodern perspective to be enlightening. -- Social Work with Groups Scholars will find the book to be well documented, and are likely to find the analysis of teamwork from the postmodern perspective to be enlightening. -- Social Work with Groups Scholars will find the book to be well documented, and are likely to find the analysis of teamwork from the postmodern perspective to be enlightening. -- Social Work with Groups
"""Scholars will find the book to be well documented, and are likely to find the analysis of teamwork from the postmodern perspective to be enlightening."" -- Social Work with Groups ""Scholars will find the book to be well documented, and are likely to find the analysis of teamwork from the postmodern perspective to be enlightening."" -- ""Social Work with Groups"" ""Scholars will find the book to be well documented, and are likely to find the analysis of teamwork from the postmodern perspective to be enlightening."" -- ""Social Work with Groups"""
Author Information
Anne Opie is research manager for the Legal Services Board in Wellington, New Zealand. She has published extensively on issues in qualitative research and aging. Her writings include Beyond Good Intentions: Support Work with Older People.
