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Dynamic Resource Allocation And Adaptability In Teamwork, Steve W. J. Kozlowski, Richard P. Deshon, Grace Park, Paul Curran, Goran Kuljanin, Brady Firth

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Team performance and adaptability. A team is a set of two or more people who interact, dynamically, interdependently, and adaptively toward a common and valued goal, each having specific roles or functions to perform, and a limited life-span of membership (Salas, Dickinson, Converse, & Tannenbaum, 1992). We assume that all cognition originates within the individual. Therefore, to understand adaptive team processes it is important to understand the ways in which being a team member affects individual cognitive processes. We also assume that unique collective constructs and processes emerge at the team level from the dynamic interaction of team members that …