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Team Building: Current Issues and New Alternatives

William G. Dyer, Jeffrey H. Dyer

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Abstract

I. CURRENT ISSUES IN TEAM BUILDING. 1. Introduction. 2. Organizational Team Building: What Companies Say and What They Do. 3. Dimensions of Teams. 4. Uses of Teams. 5. Pretended Agreement Versus Constructive Controversy. 6. Team Development Through Leadership Training. 7. Building the Collaborative Team Organization. III. ALTERNATIVE TEAM-BUILDING DESIGNS. 8. Preparing for Team Building. 9. Designing a Team-Building Program. 10. Handling Conflict and Confusion in Teams. 11. Developing the Temporary Team. 12. Following Up: What Happens After the Team-Building Session. 13. Reducing Interteam Conflict. 14. Where Does Team Building Go from Here?

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I. CURRENT ISSUES IN TEAM BUILDING. 1. Introduction. 2. Organizational Team Building: What Companies Say and What They Do. 3. Dimensions of Teams. 4. Uses of Teams. 5. Pretended Agreement Versus Constructive Controversy. 6. Team Development Through Leadership Training. 7. Building the Collaborative Team Organization. III. ALTERNATIVE TEAM-BUILDING DESIGNS. 8. Preparing for Team Building. 9. Designing a Team-Building Program. 10. Handling Conflict and Confusion in Teams. 11. Developing the Temporary Team. 12. Following Up: What Happens After the Team-Building Session. 13. Reducing Interteam Conflict. 14. Where Does Team Building Go from Here?

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I. CURRENT ISSUES IN TEAM BUILDING. 1. Introduction. 2. Organizational Team Building: What Companies Say and What They Do. 3. Dimensions of Teams. 4. Uses of Teams. 5. Pretended Agreement Versus Constructive Controversy. 6. Team Development Through Leadership Training. 7. Building the Collaborative Team Organization. III. ALTERNATIVE TEAM-BUILDING DESIGNS. 8. Preparing for Team Building. 9. Designing a Team-Building Program. 10. Handling Conflict and Confusion in Teams. 11. Developing the Temporary Team. 12. Following Up: What Happens After the Team-Building Session. 13. Reducing Interteam Conflict. 14. Where Does Team Building Go from Here?

Key concepts: Team building, Constructive, Confusion, Psychological safety, Team effectiveness, Session (web analytics), Team composition, Engineering

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