Name: Making the Team By Leigh L. Thompson
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Making the Team: United States Edition by Leigh L. Thompson

For undergraduate or graduate management courses in Organization Behavior, Group Dynamics, or Teamwork; also appropriate for executives enrolled in degree and non-degree short courses on general management.

The exciting new third edition of Making the Team: A Guide for Managers combines cutting-edge theory with the latest research and real-world applications. It delivers the most current research on groups and teams in a digestible manner. An excellent resource for managers at every stage of the game, the book offers insight to help both players and coaches maximize their success.

About Leigh L. Thompson

Leigh L. Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is also the director of the AT&T Behavioral Research Laboratory at Kellogg and the Leading High Impact Teams Executive Program at Kellogg. An active consultant, Thompson has taught teamwork skills to a wide variety of executives and managers all over the world.

An internationally recognized scholar, Thompson has published four books and over 65 articles in leading management journals and books. Thompson has received numerous awards and honors for her research, including the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California, and a grant from the Citigroup Behavioral Sciences Research Council of Citibank.

For more information about Leigh Thompson's teaching and research, please visit:
www.LeighThompson.com.

PART I: THE BASICS OF TEAMWORK
Chapter 1 Teams in Organizations: Facts and Myths
Chapter 2 Performance and Productivity: Team Performance Criteria and Threats to Productivity
Chapter 3 Rewarding Teamwork: Compensation and Performance Appraisals

PART II: INTERNAL DYNAMICS
Chapter 4 Designing the Team: Tasks, People, and Processes
Chapter 5 Team Identity, Emotion, and Development
Chapter 6 Sharpening the Team Mind: Communication and Collective Intelligence
Chapter 7 Team Decision Making: Pitfalls and Solutions
Chapter 8 Conflict in Teams: Leveraging Differences To Create Opportunity
Chapter 9 Creativity: Mastering Strategies for High Performance

PART III : EXTERNAL DYNAMICS

Chapter 10 Networking, Social Capital, and Integrating across Teams
Chapter 11 Leadership: Managing the Paradox
Chapter 12 Interteam Relations: Competition and Cooperation
Chapter 13 Teamwork via Information Technology: Teaming across Distance and Culture

References
Author Index
Subject Index

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ISBN 13

9780131861350

ISBN 10

0131861352

Title

Making the Team: United States Edition by Leigh L. Thompson

Author

Leigh L. Thompson

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Used - Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Pearson Education (US)

Year published

20071015

Number of pages

496

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