Building the Team Organization: How To Open Minds, Resolve Conflict, and Ensure Cooperation [Hardcover]

Interdependence is a basic characteristic of organizations, yet it is only recently that managers, professionals, and employees have begun to appreciate that organizational success depends upon teamwork. This book provides managers, professionals, and employees with a concise and powerful understanding of productive teamwork in organizations.PART I: PRODUCTIVE TEAMWORK 1. Team Building is a Necessity 2. What Makes Teams Effective 3. Applying the Model: The Method Reinforces the Message 4. Get Started PART II: BUILDING TEAM RELATIONSHIPS 5. Leadership for Teamwork, Teamwork for Leadership 6. Strengthen Cooperative Goals 7. Working Open-Mindedly 8. Managing Conflict ConstructivelyPART III: MAKING THE ORGANIZATION A TEAM 9. Teamwork with Customers 10. Team Organization: Departments Working Together 11. Partnering with Competitors and Government: Moving to the Teamwork Economy 12. Reflection: Becoming a Better Team

'Dean Tjosvold has been a major contributor to the understanding of teams and organizations through his original, important, theoretical and research publications. In this well-written book, he and Mary Tjosvold provide a brilliant and practical discussion of everything one would want to know about teams whether you are a social scientist, a practitioner, or simply a curious reader.'

- V. Morton Deutsch, E.L. Thorndike Professor Emeritus of Psychology; Director Emeritus of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) Teachers College, Columbia University

Finally, we have two scholars who offer us the critical perspective and management insights for developing an adaptive team organization that can lead the way in collaborating with the ever-evolving stakeholders of the 21st century, and in meeting the ever-pressing challenge of a teamwork economy in the foreseeable future.

-Michael Y. K. Chan, Chairman, Cafe de Coral Group; Chairman, Business EnterprilÃ'