Team Organization: An Enduring Competitive Advantage

Tjosvold, D.

ISBN 10: 0471934836 / ISBN 13: 9780471934837

Published by John Wiley & Sons, 1993

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780471934837.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Team Organization: An Enduring Competitive Advantage
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471934836
• ISBN 13: 9780471934837
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Poor
• Weight: 550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business

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Synopsis

Team Organization An Enduring Competitive Advantage Dean Tjosvold, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Team Organization explores group processes in organizations and shows how well-structured teams promote organizational effectiveness. The author uses group research to develop a straight-forward, powerful model which identifies the nature of productive teams and shows how to create them. He demonstrates that through productive teamwork the organization develops competitive advantages and integrates people into a company. Practitioners, researchers and advanced students working in the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, and management can use this book to obtain the tools necessary to develop teamwork which, in turn, will stimulate ongoing innovation and gain employee commitment. This is the second book to appear in the new Wiley Series in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Series Editors: Cary L. Cooper, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, and Neal Schmitt,Michigan State University, USA.

About the Author

About the author: After graduating from Princeton University, Dean Tjosvold studied the social psychology of organizations for his PhD, which he obtained from the University of Minnesota in 1972. He is now a Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Before that he taught at Pennsylvania State University and was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore. He has published over 100 articles and several books on managing conflict, cooperation and competition, decision making, power, and other management issues.