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Utah State University

Organizational Behavior and Human Resources

2005

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High Performance Teams: What Makes The Difference?, Bruce Jackson, Susan R. Madsen Apr 2005

High Performance Teams: What Makes The Difference?, Bruce Jackson, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

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, …


Work-Family Conflict And Health: A Study Of The Workplace, Psychological, And Behavioral Correlates, Susan R. Madsen, Cameron John, Duane Miller Feb 2005

Work-Family Conflict And Health: A Study Of The Workplace, Psychological, And Behavioral Correlates, Susan R. Madsen, Cameron John, Duane Miller

Susan R. Madsen

Quantitative methods are used to shed light on the relationships among work-family conflict, health, and other workplace, psychological, and behavioral constructs, i.e., organizational commitment, management/leadership relations, job knowledge and skills, job demands, workplace social relations, and readiness for change. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data regarding the perceptions of 464 employees in four organizations. Negative correlations were found between work-family conflict and all variables except job knowledge and skills. Significant relationships were also discovered between health and all study variables. Multiple regressions were used to explore the relationships between the demographic variables and work-family conflict and health.


Common Factors Of High Performance Teams, Bruce Jackson, Susan R. Madsen Feb 2005

Common Factors Of High Performance Teams, Bruce Jackson, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

Utilization of work teams is now wide spread in all types of organizations throughout the world. However, an understanding of the important factors common to high performance teams is rare. The purpose of this content analysis is to explore the literature and propose findings related to high performance teams. These include definition and types, goals, talent, skills, performance ethics, incentives and motivation, efficacy, leadership, conflict, communication, power and empowerment, norms and standards, and values.


Common Factors Of High Performance Teams, Bruce Jackson, Susan R. Madsen Jan 2005

Common Factors Of High Performance Teams, Bruce Jackson, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

Utilization of work teams is now widespread in all types of organizations throughout the world. An understanding of the important factors common to high performance teams is, however, rare. the purpose of this content analysis is to explore the literature and propose findings related to high performance teams. These include definition and types, goals, talent, skills, performance ethics, incentives and motivation, efficacy, leadership, conflict, communication, power and empowerment, norms and standards, and values.