Syftet med uppsatsen är att förklara vilka kulturella skillnader som finns mellan teammedlemmarna i ett av Saabs interkulturella arbetsteam med utgångspunkt från Hofstedes och Trompenaars kulturella dimensioner. Vi vill även analysera och förklara de problem som kan uppstå på grund av dessa kulturella skillnader i gruppen. Vi vill dessutom försöka hjälpa Saab och om möjligt ge råd till Saab om hur de kan skapa bättre samarbete i ett interkulturellt team. För att lyckas uppnå syftet med studien har följande forskningsfråga formulerats: Vilka kulturella skillnader finns det i en interkulturell arbetsgrupp med svenskar och schweizare, samt vilka problem innebär dessa skillnader för arbetsgruppen? Den teori som har använts innefattar kultur och dess innebörd, kulturella skillnader och dimensioner samt kulturens påverkan i team. Studiens metod har varit kvalitativ med en deduktiv ansats tillsammans med ett samarbete med företaget Saab och deras interkulturella arbetsteam. I empirikapitlet presenteras enkätfrågorna med svar samt citat från samtliga intervjuer. I analyskapitlet följer sedan en tolkning av empirin med utgångspunkt i den valda teorin. Studiens slutsats påvisar att det finns både små och stora kulturella skillnader i Saabs interkulturella arbetsteam som har inneburit problem och missförstånd i gruppen. Avslutningsvis ger vi förslag på ytterligare forskning och ger praktiska rekommendationer till Saab.

To produce superior team performances members must be able to work well together to exceed the sum of their parts. Despite an extensive body of research in healthcare, business, military, and aviation, there is limited understanding of what effective teams do in sport. In an attempt to address this gap in the literature the present doctoral thesis - commissioned by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - sought to uncover, measure, test, and improve the most important factors for team effectiveness in cricket. The thesis contains three empirical studies which address the following research questions: (i) what factors contribute to the effectiveness of cricket teams? (ii) How can team functioning and effectiveness be measured? (iii) Can factors of team functioning accurately predict effective cricket teams, and what is the relative importance of those factors? (iv) Can team functioning and effectiveness be improved in cricket teams? Chapter 1 of the thesis defines some of the key terms associated with the group-based literature, before critically reviewing the organisational and sport psychology literature on team effectiveness and group dynamics, highlighting limitations that need to be addressed. These include a lack of research attention on teamwork or team functioning in sport, the investigation of group-related variables in sport in isolation, an overreliance on deductive approaches to framework development, a lack of appropriate measures, and the exclusive focus upon the development of cohesion within team building interventions in sport. Chapter 2 is an abductive, qualitative investigation involving 21 cricket experts, which explores the factors most important for team effectiveness in cricket. Based on this elite samples' construal, we propose a parsimonious and novel conceptualisation of team effectiveness in cricket (Essential Team Ingredients model; ETI). Chapter 3 contains two studies concerned with the development and validation of the Inventory of Essential Team Ingredients (IETI), designed to measure each sub-component of the ETI model. The first study adopted a new paradigm of measurement design to validate a multi-construct, single-item based inventory. The second study examined the extent to which factors within the ETI model could accurately predict effective teams in a sample of 32 high performing male and female cricket teams. Through the application of novel pattern recognition analyses, results suggested that certain features could accurately predict an effective team in nearly 90% of instances. Chapter 4 presents an intervention study, whereby a team building intervention based on the IETI was designed, delivered and evaluated, providing an indication that team functioning can be improved over a short period, and preliminary evidence for the utility of the IETI. Finally, Chapter 5 concludes the thesis by discussing some of the theoretical, conceptual, and applied implications of the findings, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the research and potential avenues of future research.

Teams are pervasive in organizations and provide an important contribution to organizational productivity. Since Hackman's (1987) seminal work, the team research focus has shifted from describing teams to outlining how researchers might use points of leverage, such as team design, to increase team effectiveness. There has been a wealth of research on team design variables that relate to team effectiveness. However, more than 15 years later, the team design literature remains fragmented and is inconsistent, and conclusions regarding optimal team design are difficult to make. The present study sought to unify the team design research by proposing a conceptual model and testing hypothesized relationships between specified design variables and team effectiveness using meta-analytic techniques. Specifically, the objectives of this study were to: (a) identify team design variables over which researchers and practitioners have some degree of control, (b) summarize the literature related to each of these variables, (c) hypothesize how each of the design variables are related to team effectiveness, (d) assess the relationship between these variables and team effectiveness using meta-analysis, (e) assess the influence of specified moderator variables (e.g., study setting, team tenure) on the team design variable/team effectiveness relationships, (f) make theoretically- and empirically-based recommendations for the design of effective teams, and (g) highlight areas in need of additional research. Results indicated that several team design variables show promise as a means of increasing team effectiveness. The strength of the team composition variable/team performance relationships was dependent on the study setting (lab or field); however, the study setting had considerable overlap with the type of team assessed (intellectual or physical). For lab studies (intellectual teams), team general mental ability (GMA) and task-relevant expertise were strong predictors of team performance, while team personality variables were unrelated to team performance. In field studies (physical teams), team agreeableness and conscientiousness had stronger relationships with team performance than team GMA and team task-relevant expertise. Team task design variables (e.g., task significance) had consistent, positive relationships with team performance, and several team structure variables (e.g., degree of self- management) were also related to team performance.

The objective of this study was to investigate the role of team sex composition in team training performance and team processes in the context of a complex, psychomotor, information–processing task. With the growing number of women in the workplace, the role of, and implications for, team sex composition is an important research question because there are performance domains, such as psychomotor tasks, where replicable sex differences have been documented. We used 92 four–person teams to investigate the relationship between team sex composition, team declarative knowledge, team–efficacy, team communication, team cohesion, and team performance on a complex, psychomotor, information–processing task. The results indicate that team sex composition was significantly related to team performance and team declarative knowledge. Furthermore, team performance and team declarative knowledge showed significant mean differences across the levels of team sex composition, such that teams with a larger proportion of males had higher scores on each of the variables. As hypothesized, team communication showed an opposite effect where teams with higher proportions of females reported larger amounts of communication, but none of the team sex composition pairwise comparisons were significantly different. The posited relationship between team cohesion and team homogeneity was not supported. Finally, there was no evidence for any of the process variables moderating the relationship between team sex composition and team performance. Team sex composition may be an important variable in training situations where past sex differences have been demonstrated on the performance task of interest. The findings suggest the need to consider instructional design strategies that may mitigate the negative effects of team sex composition on team performance. Future research is needed to determine the extent to which findings from this single study generalize to other psychomotor task domains and how all–female teams will perform under similar circumstances.

At present traditional industries, shifting production to China and South-East Asia has become the key to survival, and the only way to promote their competency. Taiwan bicycle industry started to shift production to these areas in early phases since 1989. At that time, it seems that it was the only solution for promoting competency and keeping survival. Ten years lately, nowadays, Taiwan¡¦s enterprises starting self-examination on their competitiveness advantage. This new deliberated mode deserved us to go deep into comprehension for the significance come to. This research refers to the viewpoint of ¡§Synergy of Clustering ¡§, ¡§Innovation¡¨ and ¡§Strategic Alliance¡¨. Recording and reporting the updated worldwide bicycle industries circumstances, the history of Taiwan bicycle industry and the moving process of A-TEAM. Expect this research can be a good reference for A-TEAM strategy implementation. Creating ¡§SCA¡¨ (Sustainable Competitive Advantage), and re-create the miracle of Taiwan Bicycle Industry. Based on this research, in order to keep the root base in Taiwan, A-TAEM used the 3 step strategic to synergy the operations management, products development and marketing for all members to approach the mission and vision of recreating competencies. Endeavor to develop innovated value-added products and just ¡V in ¡V time delivery to global market. Creating a brand new, high value added market. To create a new phase for promote bicycle industry¡¦s competitiveness. By means of this research, in recording and reporting the updated information on global bicycle industry, the past and present of Taiwan¡¦s bicycle industry and A-TEAM moving process. Again, could create the miracle on Taiwan¡¦s bicycle industry. At the meantime, to be a successful benchmarking to other Taiwan industry that had lost its competitiveness.

In order to control the efficiency of then information system introduction , enterprise often orgainzed with a project team. Project team is organized with provisionally of variant manpower and business. In the information system introduction or project team evolution will face organizational learning and reengineering process. While in the organizational learning, member of organization always act defensively with Model I theories, and the defence behavior will bring negative influence or limited learning. While project team evolution have the same defence behavior, those defence behavior will bring bad influence of organziation. This research uses case study probe into the information system introduction and project team evolution defence behavior , let us understand those behavior and the influence of project team evolution. In this research, we describes the case of the information project introduction and project team evolution with five stages and ten events. and analysing those ten events with thoeries of the organization defends in the information management of Argyris. Its result show the member of project team, user , executive of managers all have behavior of defending in the introduction of project. Those defence behavior of the project team evolution or information system introduction, will all exert a negative influence on company's organizations or information systems. This research in order incident these defend behavior and influence result , let enterprise reference with a information project team evolution.

Teams are pervasive in organizations and provide an important contribution to organizational productivity. Since Hackman's (1987) seminal work, the team research focus has shifted from describing teams to outlining how researchers might use points of leverage, such as team design, to increase team effectiveness. There has been a wealth of research on team design variables that relate to team effectiveness. However, more than 15 years later, the team design literature remains fragmented and is inconsistent, and conclusions regarding optimal team design are difficult to make. The present study sought to unify the team design research by proposing a conceptual model and testing hypothesized relationships between specified design variables and team effectiveness using meta-analytic techniques. Specifically, the objectives of this study were to: (a) identify team design variables over which researchers and practitioners have some degree of control, (b) summarize the literature related to each of these variables, (c) hypothesize how each of the design variables are related to team effectiveness, (d) assess the relationship between these variables and team effectiveness using meta-analysis, (e) assess the influence of specified moderator variables (e.g., study setting, team tenure) on the team design variable/team effectiveness relationships, (f) make theoretically- and empirically-based recommendations for the design of effective teams, and (g) highlight areas in need of additional research. Results indicated that several team design variables show promise as a means of increasing team effectiveness. The strength of the team composition variable/team performance relationships was dependent on the study setting (lab or field); however, the study setting had considerable overlap with the type of team assessed (intellectual or physical). For lab studies (intellectual teams), team general mental ability (GMA) and task-relevant expertise were strong predictors of team performance, while team personality variables were unrelated to team performance. In field studies (physical teams), team agreeableness and conscientiousness had stronger relationships with team performance than team GMA and team task-relevant expertise. Team task design variables (e.g., task significance) had consistent, positive relationships with team performance, and several team structure variables (e.g., degree of self- management) were also related to team performance.

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The present research developed and assessed the Team Workload Questionnaire (TWLQ). Despite extensive workload studies, little research has been conducted on the workload experienced by teams. Team workload has largely been ignored by research with no validated theory constructed or dedicated team workload measures available to researchers and practitioners. The research was conducted in two studies with study 1 focusing on the development of the TWLQ with 216 members of sports team completing a team workload measure after games or practise. In study 2, 14 dyadic teams performed two sessions of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) search-and-rescue task. The TWLQ was used to measure the team workload demand of the task. Study 1: Principle Axis Factoring method with Direct Oblimin rotation indicated three separate factors for the TWLQ with the factors classified as Task Workload, Team Workload, and Task-Team Balancing. Study 2: The TWLQ exhibited differential sensitivity, with the three factors measuring unique components of the workload demands in teams. The TWLQ is a valid and reliable subjective measure that can be used to assess the workload demand in team tasks. It provides researchers a tool to advance the understating of team workload and gives practitioners the means to assess the workload demands of team tasks in applied settings.

Kandidatuppsats i innovationsteknik, Mälardalens Högskola i Eskilstuna Datum: 2014-05-28 Författare: Karokh Salehi, Sacir Kadic och Isak Koc Handledare: Loe Önnered Titel: Teamwork - Framgångsfaktorer för att skapa och utveckla ett innovativt team Problemformulering: Innovation har i dagsläget blivit modernt och används av många organisationer. Till följd av detta har studiens frågeställning utformats enligt följande: Vilka faktorer är avgörande för att skapa och utveckla ett innovativt team? Syfte: Studiens syfte är att finna framgångsfaktorer hos teamarbete både hos de som beskrivs som traditionella och innovativa. För att uppnå detta genomförs en jämförelse över deras arbetsprocesser och utvecklingsfaktorer. Metod: Studiens information har hämtats från vetenskapliga artiklar och kurslitteraturer. Undersökningen bestod även av ett flertal intervjuer med deltagare från två olika team. Intervjuerna var semistrukturerade och utfördes genom personliga möten. Slutsats: Grundläggande faktorer för utveckling av team redovisas där även de faktorer som begränsar ett framgångsrikt arbete inkluderas. Nyckelord: Team, innovation, utveckling / Bachelor's essay in Innovation management , Mälardalens Högskola in Eskilstuna Date: 2014-05-28 Authors: Karokh Salehi, Sacir Kadic och Isak Koc Tutor: Loe Önnered Title: Teamwork - Success factors for creating and developing an innovative team Problem formulation: Nowadays innovation has become modern and is used by many organizations. As a result of this, the study's issue formulation has been set to: What factors are critical to creating and developing an innovative team? Purpose: The study's purpose is to find success factors in teamwork that are both traditional and innovative. In order to achieve this a comparison will be made about their work processes and development factors. Method: The study's information has been derived from scientific articles and course literature. The survey also consisted of numerous interviews with participants from two different teams. The interviews were semi-structured and were conducted through personal meetings. Conclusion: Basic elements for the development of teams are presented where also the factors that are limiting the successful work is included. Keywords: Teams, innovation, development