Team formation under normal versus crisis situations: leaders' assessments of task requirements and selection of team members
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Authors
Baltos, Georgios
Mitsopoulou, Zoi
Subjects
Team formation
team member selection
leadership
skills
attributes
task assignment
crisis situation;
team member selection
leadership
skills
attributes
task assignment
crisis situation;
Advisors
Gibsons, Deborah
Simon, Cary
Date of Issue
2007-06
Date
June 2007
Publisher
Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
The blend of skills, attributes, and relationships among team members influences their mutual performance. This project addressed the team composition requirements for tasks that vary in uncertainty, risk, and time pressure. Military leaders were asked to identify necessary team member attributes for strategy, negotiating, and crisis response teams, and to compose potential teams from among their colleagues for each scenario. Their responses were combined with measures of relationships among potential teammates. Results indicated that team selection criteria change when organizational environmental factors change, and team leaders make selection decisions considering friendship, professional ties with and reliability of candidate team members. Motivation, professional capabilities, and leadership skills are the most preferred selection variables when the organizational situation is perceived as a crisis.
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Thesis
Description
MBA Professional Report
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Department
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Format
85 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.